Birds. 



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Hair of the Roebuck. — " The difference in the colour and kind of hair that a roe's 

 skin is covered with at different seasons of the year is astonishingly great. From May 

 to October they are covered with bright red-brown hair, and but little of it. In win- 

 ter their coat is a fine dark mouse-colour, very long and close, but the hair is brittle, 

 and breaks easily in the hand, like dried grass. The roe sometimes take it into their 

 heads to swim across wide pieces of water, and even arms of the sea. I have known 

 roe caught by boatmen in the Cromarty Firth, swimming strongly against the current 

 of the tide, which runs there with great rapidity." — ' Wild Sports in the Highlands? 



Arrivals of Migratory Birds at Elveden, Suffolk. 



1847. 

 Wheatear about March 23 



1847. 

 Cuckow about April 28 



Lapwing 



Thicknee 



Blackcap , 



Nightingale .. 



Swallow 



Sand-martin.. 

 House-martin 



March 23 

 March 29 

 April 20 

 April 24 

 April 25 

 April 27 

 April 28 



Redstart 



Spotted flycatcher 



Turtle dove 



Swift 



Goatsucker 



Sedge-warbler ... 



May 

 May 

 May 



1 

 5 

 & 

 7 

 15 

 May 15 



May 



— Alfred Newton ; Everton, Biggleswade, July 28, 1847. 



Nidification of Birds at Elveden. 



1847. 



Song thrush about March 24 



Blackbird „ March 26 



Lapwing ,, March 31 



Stockdove „ April 3 



Hedge accentor „ April 16 



Pheasant „ April 16 



Jackdaw „ April 22 



Long-tailed tit „ April 23 



Skylark „ April 26 



White owl „ April 27 



Red-legged partridge ... „ April 29 



Wheatear „ April 29 



Common partridge „ April 30 



Black and white wagtail „ April 30 



Blue tit „ May 2 



Tree-creeper „ May 3 



Chaffinch „ May 4 



Thicknee „ May 4 



Gray linnet „ May 4 



Meapow pipit „ May 6 



Bullfinch „ May 7 



House sparrow „ May 7 



Greenfinch „ May 8 



Greater tit „ May 8 



Kingfisher „ May 10 



1847. 

 Ringdove about May 12 



Cole tit 



Ringed plover 



Common snipe 



Little grebe 



Willow-warbler 



Nightingale 



Black-headed bunting 

 Golden-crested wren .. 



Lesser redpole 



Green woodpecker 



Water hen 



Blackcap 



Swallow 



Yellow bunting 



Spotted flycatcher 



Wryneck 



Turtle dove 



Redstart 



Stonechat 



Nightjar , 



Sand-martin 



Common martin 



Yellow (Ray's) wagtail 



May 12 

 May 13 

 May 13 

 May 13 

 May 15 

 May 15 

 May 15 

 May 16 

 May 16 

 May 17 

 May 17 

 May 17 

 May 20 

 May 24 

 May 25 

 May 26 

 May 27 

 May 29 

 May 30 

 June 2 

 June 5 

 June 6 

 July 1 



The dates are those on which the birds respectively laid their first eggs. — Id. 



