Birds, 



1005 



Dates of the Arrival of a few Summer Birds of Passage at Wandsbeck, near Ham 

 burgh, in 1845. 



White wagtail March 27 



White stork April 1 



Swallow 18 



Nightingale 18 



Wryneck 18 



Pied flycatcher 18 



Swift 18 



Auguste Lamek ,• Wandsbeck, near Hamburgh. 



Dates of the Arrival of some of our Summer Birds near Allesley 



Redstart April 



Cuckoo May 



Red-backed shrike 



Woodchat 



Oriole 



Hoopoe 



I!) 

 10 

 12 

 12 

 12 

 12 



Warwickshire. 



Redstart appeared and sang very 



feebly < 



ChifF-chaff {Sylvia loquax) sang 



Willow-wren (S. Trochilus) sang 



Swallows (H. rustica) appeared 



[Three swallows were seen at 



Warwick by other observers, 



April 7]. 



Blackcap sang 



April 



Tree-pipit sang April 22 



Cuckoo sang [heard by others 



April 20] 



Grasshopper Warbler sang 



Fieldfares last seen 



Young rooks heard in their nests 



Wood-wren sang 



Nightingale sang 



Swifts appeared [at Warwick]... May 



24 

 24 

 24 

 24 

 25 

 26 

 21 Swifts appeared [at Warwick]... May 5 

 Up to the present time, May 16, no swifts have been observed here ; they seem to be 

 deserting this district. As regards the above notices, I may remark that the appear- 

 ance of the redstart on the 4th of April is unusually early for this neighbourhood ; I 

 seldom see it till about the 12th or 14th. The song of the chiff-chaff on the 7th, and 

 that of the blackcap on the 21st, are unusually late; the former is generally heard in 

 March, the latter early in April, and occasionally the latter end of March. The rooks 

 for the most part are a very punctual people in commencing the business of nidifica- 

 tion ; I consider the 10th of March about the usual time when they begin to carry 

 sticks for building in the rookery here ; and they seldom vary more than one or two 

 days on either side of that date. This season I observed them carrying sticks on the 12th, 

 in spite even of the severe weather ; but it should almost seem as if this were only for 

 form's sake, and, as it were, to keep up their character for punctuality ; for they de- 

 sisted, in consequence, I presume, of the coldness of the weather (it being severe frost), 

 or at least made little or no progress for about a week or more. — W. T. Bree ; Alles- 

 ley Rectory, near Coventry, May, 1845. 



Dates of Arrival of Migratory Birds at Elvedon, in 1845. 



Black and white wagtail Feb. 21 



Ringed plover Mar. 3 



Lapwing 10 



Wheatear 26 



Great plover 27 



House-martin April 4 



Willow-warbler 5 



Wood-warbler 5 



Wryneck 8 



Little grebe 11 



Edward Newton; Elden, June 17, 1845. 



Redstart April 17 



Blackcap 18 



Nightingale 21 



Swallow 22 



Cuckoo 22 



Spotted flycatcher 24 



Sand-martin 27 



Greater white throat 29 



Turtle-dove May 7 



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