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Blackcap, Garden Warbler, Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, Wood 

 Warbler, Icterine Warbler, Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Grass- 

 hopper Warbler, White-headed Long-tailed Tit, Great Tit, Coal 

 Tit, Marsh Tit, Blue Tit, Crested Tit, Northern Nuthatch (?), 

 Nuthatch, Creeper, Wren, White Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, Tree 

 Pipit, Meadow Pipit, Great Grey Shrike, Red-backed Shrike, 

 Spotted Flycatcher, Swallow, House Martin, Sand Martin, Gold- 

 finch, Siskin, Serin Finch, Greenfinch, House Sparrow, Tree 

 Sparrow, Chaffinch, Linnet, Twite (?), Common Bunting, Yellow 

 Bunting, Sky Lark, Crested Lark, Starling, Jay, Magpie, Carrion 

 Crow, Swift, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, 

 Wryneck, Hen Harrier, Common Buzzard, Golden Eagle, Gos- 

 hawk (?), Sparrowhawk, Black Kite, Kestrel, Common Heron, 

 White Stork (at Babenhausen, July 27th), Wood Pigeon, Turtle 

 Dove, Water Rail (?). 



This concludes my list of about seventy species, of which 

 I have marked a few as doubtful. Had I been at Kissingen a 

 month earlier, when the birds were in full song, I might have 

 been able to add several others. 



Of species common enough in this country, I did not observe 

 the Missel Thrush, Hedgesparrow, Goldcrest, Bullfinch, or Rook ; 

 nor did I see a Jackdaw until I found one perching on the towers 

 of Maintz. The fact that no Goldcrests were to be found in the 

 many woods around Kissingen struck me as " passing strange." 



And now, in conclusion, let me suggest that some competent 

 ornithologist should draw up a list of the birds likely to be met 

 with in those continental countries which, year after year, are 

 crowded with English visitors. When acting as chaplain in 

 Switzerland and in the Black Forest, I found that the greatest 

 interest was taken in any remarks I ventured to make about the 

 birds of the district, and I well remember the delight of two 

 English ladies when, at Triberg in 1888, I pointed out to them 

 that remarkable little bird the Crested Tit. When at Gimmel- 

 wald, also, in the Laaterbrunnen Valley, in 1889, where we were 

 delighted to notice the Alpine Swifts, and that lovely little bird 

 the Citril Finch, I was asked more than once by guests at the 

 Pension Schilthorn, " What is the black bird with the white tail 

 we often see flying about ?" For a long time I was unable to say 

 more than that I did not know, or that it must be some lusus 

 naturce. Until at last one day I discovered the secret when I saw 



