1066 Birds. 



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



Black and white wagtail Feb. 11 Nightingale April 23 



Lapwing 28 Lesser whitethroat 24 



Wryneck April 6 Cuckoo 24 



Chiff-chaff 12 Willow-warbler 28 



Blackcap 12 Turtle-dove May I 



Greater whitethroat 16 Red-backed shrike 3 



Redstart 16 Tree-pipit 15 



Swallow 21 Spotted flycatcher 25 



House-martin 22 Swift 31 



— Alfred Newton; Elden, June 17, 1845. 



Arrival of certain Summer Birds near Neivport, Salop, in 1845. While on a visit 

 at Loynton-hall, near Newport, Salop, I heard and saw some of our summer birds, 

 perhaps rather earlier than usual, notwithstanding the backwardness of the season. 

 On the evening of April 1, between 7 and 8 o'clock, I observed a flight of sand-mar- 

 tins (Hirundo riparia), as many as fifty, I should think, flying round and round at a 

 considerable height in the air, over Blakemore-pool, near Loynton. They continued 

 their evolutions for a quarter of an hour at the least, gradually descending, until they 

 came to the surface of the water, where I watched them as long as the day-light would 

 permit. I went to the same place the following morning, about 9 o'clock, in the hope 

 of seeing them again, but not one was to be seen till about the same time again in the 

 evening, although I was about the pool most of the day ; they appeared in about the 

 same manner and number, as near as I can guess, as on the previous evening. My 

 impression upon first seeing them was that they had just arrived, but their similar ap- 

 pearance on the following evening argues perhaps rather against that idea. I may 

 add that on the same evenings I was much pleased with hearing the curious " whor- 

 ring" noise, peculiar, I believe, to this season of the year, made by the snipes, of which 

 there is great plenty at Blakemore. The keeper informed me the noise was made by 

 the wings, but at the time I heard it, the birds were certainly on the ground, which 

 perhaps argues against the noise being made by the wings. I heard one last year, on 

 disturbing it from its nest, make the same noise while flying round in the air. The 

 chiff-chaff {Sylvia loquax) sang April 1 ; the willow-wren (S. Trochilus) April 7 ; and 

 two swallows (Hirundo rustica) appeared April 7. — W. Bree, jun. ; Allesley Rectory, 

 April 11, 1845. 



Dates of the arrival of Summer Birds at Epping, in 1845. 



Swift May 12 Greater pettychaps May 11 



House-martin April 28 Nightingale April 21 



Sand-martin 19 Redstart 3 



Swallow 2 Whinchat 25 



Grasshopper warbler 21 Wheatear 13 



Sedge-warbler 21 Tree-pipit 20 



Wood-wren 23 Yellow wagtail 20 ij 



Willow-wren 6 Spotted flycatcher May 14 



Lesser pettychaps 2 Red-backed shrike 11 



Whitethroat 23 Wryneck April 6 



Lesser whitethroat 22 Turtle-dove May 12 



Blackcap 13 Cuckoo April 21 



Swallow. — Two of these birds arrived on the 2nd of April, but I did not notice any 

 others till the 16th, when they began to appear in tolerable plenty. Whinchat. — This 



