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two miles, it offers, with its attractions of wood 

 and water, a tempting resting-place to these 

 small winged invaders on their arrival, and fur- 

 nishes, moreover, a fine post of observation to 

 the inquiring naturalist. Here, throughout April 

 and May, the woods of West Ashling and the 

 copses around Kingley Vale resound with the 

 songs of various warblers, but especially of 

 Nightingales, which find in this safe retreat an 

 immunity from traps which is not everywhere 

 accorded them. On April 10 their remarkable 

 note was detected at Reigate ; on the 1 2 th they 

 were singing at East and West Woodhay, in 

 Berkshire ; while from the last-named date until 

 April 18 they were daily noticed in various 

 parts of Norfolk and Suffolk. From thence, 

 through Leicester, Derby, and Nottingham, we 

 trace this bird to Yorkshire, where on May 5 

 we find it at Barnsley, the temperature, ac- 

 cording to that good observer Mr. Lister, 

 standing at 50°, and the wind W. Further north 

 than this in 1872 there were no tidings of it, 

 although in former years I have both seen and 



