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Birds. 



"12 February. — [Killed a bear], flead her, and took at least one 

 hundred pound of fat out of her belly, which we molt, and burnt in 

 our lampe. This grease did us great good seruice, for by that meanes 

 we still kept a lamp burning all night long, which before we could 

 not doe for want of grease, and every man had a lamp in his caban. . 

 . . The beares skin was 9 foote long and 7 foote broad." 



List of the Arrival and Departure of the Migratory Birds, as far as observed, near 

 Weston-on-the-Green, Oxfordshire, during 1851. — 



Arrival. 



Chiff-chaff 



Aprii 



2 



Whinchat 



May 9 



Willow Wren 



- 



14 



Swift 



10 



Black-cap 



_ 



14 



Red-backed Shrike 



15 



Swallow 



- 



16 



Turtle Dove 



16 



Grasshopper Warbler 



- 



16 



Hobby - 



19 



Redstart 



- 



17 



Land Rail 



20 



Spotted Flycatcher - 



- 



18 



Great Plover 



20 



Wryneck 



- 



18 



Snipe 



- Septr. 4 



Martin - 



- 



19 



Great Snipe - 



12 



Cuckoo 



- 



19 



Jack Snipe 



- Octr. 10 



Nightingale 



- 



19 



Merlin 



23 



Whitethroat - 



- 



20 



Fieldfare - 



27 



Sedge-bird 



_ 



22 



Woodcock 



28 



Yellow Wagtail - 



- 



23 



Red-wing 



- Novr. 3 



Lesser Whitethroat - 



- 



25 



Gray Shrike 



Deer. 18 





Week 



in which last seen. 





Red-wing 



- March 



III. 



Blackcap 



i. 



Fieldfare * 





IV. 



Turtle Dove 



in. 



Snipe - 



- April 



IV. 



Whitethroat 



in. 



Cuckoo 



July 



IV. 



Tree Pipit 



October i. 



Swift - 



- August 



n, 



Yellow Wagtail - 



ii. 



Whinchat 



Septemr 



>. i. 



Swallow - 



in. 



Spotted Flycatcher 



- 



i. 



Martin 



in. 



Redstart - 





i. 







— A. Matthews ; Weston-on-the-Green, May 31, 1852. 



Occurrence of various Birds at Weston-on-the-Green in 1851. — The last twelve- 

 month was, in this part of the kingdom, very unproductive of ornithological events : 

 with the exception of the following, some of which have already appeared in your pa- 

 ges, nothing has come to my knowledge worthy of note. On the 20th of February a 



* Fieldfares were occasionally seen until the middle of April, passing over this 

 place towards the north-east, at a great height in the air. 



