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with boats. The Blue-headed Wagtail is new to the Oxon list. 

 As mentioned further on, I saw another in the same place on the 

 2nd Sept. following. Mr. Fowler also reports a male Pied Fly- 

 catcher catching flies from the iron rails by the Cherwell at the 

 bottom of the Parks. Mr. Lambert reports, in the * Oxford 

 Times,' that he saw three Dunlins on Port Meadow on the 14th 

 April. 



5th. Visited Clattercote Reservoir, but found it very low and 

 inhabited only by one pair of Crested Grebes, two pairs of Coots, 

 and one Mallard. Went on to Wormleighton (Warwickshire), 

 where I saw one pair of Grebes, three pairs of Coots (one nest 

 contained six eggs), some Moorhens, and a pair of Teal. These 

 last were flushed from a thick belt of bushes, brambles, willows, 

 and rushes between a thick hedge and bank and the water. The 

 cover was so thick that it is hardly to be wondered at that a 

 search for the nest was unsuccessful; but I have no doubt that 

 they were breeding ; the spot was a most likely one, and the birds 

 would not leave the water, pitching down again several times after 

 a flight. Mr. Reeve told me that in Tor Wood, South Leigh, on 

 the 2nd, he noticed two Nightingales singing, heard the Grass- 

 hopper Warbler, and saw a Nightjar. 



7th. Saw at Mr. Wyatt's a male Hawfinch which flew in at a 

 room window at Neithrop, Banbury, a few days before. 



8th. News from Mr. Fowler, at Oxford, that he found a 

 Wood Wren singing at Parson's Pleasure the day before, and also 

 observed the Nightingale and Lesser Kedpoll there. 



15th. When Rook shooting at Bloxham Grove I saw a Hobby, 

 which darted out of a spinney behind me and came over my head. 

 It got up rather high in the air, and went down to the valley, being 

 attacked twice on the way by a Rook, but the hawk with a turn 

 of its wings just mounted above it, and took no more notice. Had 

 news of the following birds from Mr. Lambert : — The Wryneck 

 was heard at Godstow on 23rd April, on Open Brazenose on Jst 

 May, and at Godstow on 7th May. He remarks that he never 

 found the eggs of this bird, and that it is uncommon about Oxford. 

 A Green Sandpiper seen by him on Port Meadow on the 25th 

 April. Several Grasshopper Warblers observed on Open Braze- 

 nose on May 1st. A Hobby shot at Church Handhorough on 

 the 4th May. Two Wood Wrens seen at Wood Eaton on the 10th 

 May. Two males and a female Red-backed Shrike observed at 



