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Tufted Duck. — A single example visited the pond on lawn. 



Woodcock. — Often flushed in kitchen-garden and in shrub- 

 beries. A small plantation of two acres adjoining the house was 

 one morning beaten through, when fourteen were flushed. 



By the side of the stream below the house the Common 

 Sandpiper was regularly seen in the spring working its way to its 

 nesting-station on the moors ; and the Wood Sandpiper was once 

 identified. Close outside the confines of the grounds Snipe occa- 

 sionally nested, and both Whinchat and Stonechat ; while Hen 

 Harrier, Marsh Harrier, Buzzard, and Merlin were all noted. 



Water Bails were common throughout the year, and it is 

 believed that they occasionally nested in the shrubberies. 



In one very severe spring, when snow lay on the ground until 

 the middle of April, both Golden Plovers and Lapwings came 

 into the garden ; they were nearly starved, but would not eat the 

 food put about for them. 



Cormorants were frequently noted passing over, and were 

 only too often found poaching in the Trout stream below. 



List No. III. — Buckland Dinham, E. Somerset. 



Birds observed in the grounds of the Vicarage, Buckland Dinham, 

 East Somerset, between 1888 and 1897. 



The parish of Buckland Dinham is in the East of Somerset, 

 three miles north of Frome, and only three miles from the borders 

 of Wilts. It stands 420 feet above the sea-level on a hill which 

 rises gradually above it to over 600 feet. It contains rich meadows 

 and pastures, and some of the finest Cheddar cheeses are made in 

 the dairies. A large wood of over 200 acres is within half-a-mile ; 

 the local ornis is rich in Warblers and Woodpeckers. A small 

 stream runs at the foot of the hill on which the village is built. 



Mistle Thrush, b. Blackcap, b. Nuthatch. 



Song Thrush, b. Garden Warbler. Wren, b. 



Redwing. Golden-crested Wren, b. Tree Creeper, b. 



Fieldfare. Chiffchaff, b. Pied Wagtail, b. 



Blackbird, b. Willow Wren, b. Grey Wagtail. 



"Whinchat. Hedge Sparrow, b. Yellow Wagtail. 



Redstart, b. Long-tailed Tit. Tree Pipit. 



Redbreast, b. Great Tit, b. Meadow Pipit. 



Nightingale. Coal Tit, b. Red-backed Shrike, b. 



Whitethroat, b. Marsh Tit, b. Spotted Flycatcher, b. 



Leseer Whitethroat, b. Blue Tit, b. Swallow, b. 



Zool. 4th Ser. vol. I., September, 1891. 2 g 



