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THE ZOOLOGIST. 



House Martin, b. 

 Sand Martin, b. 

 Greenfinch, b. 

 Hawfinch. 

 Goldfinch, b. 

 House Sparrow, b. 

 Tree Sparrow. 

 Chaffinch, b. 

 Brambling. 

 Linnet, b. 

 Lesser Redpoll. 

 Bullfinch, b. 

 Crossbill. 



Yellow Bunting, b. 

 Starling, b. 



Magpie. 

 Jackdaw. 

 Rook. 

 Sky Lark. 

 Swift. 

 Nightjar. 



Wryneck, b. [pecker. 

 Great Spotted Wood- 

 Lesser Spotted Wood- 

 pecker. 

 Green Woodpecker. 

 Cuckoo. 

 White Owl. 

 Tawny Owl. 

 Sparrow Hawk. 



Peregrine Falcon, pass- 

 Kestrel, [ing over. 

 Heron, passing over. 

 Bean Goose, ditto. 

 Ring Dove, b. 

 Stock Dove. 

 Turtle Dove. 

 Pheasant. 

 Partridge, b. 

 Corn Crake, b. [over. 

 Stone Curlew, passing 

 Lapwing, ditto. 

 Brown-headed Gull. 

 Herring Gull, passing 

 over. 



Total birds observed, 76 ; total birds nesting, 36. 



Notes. — The absence of any pond or stream close at hand 

 occasions this list, in spite of its greater richness in the Warblers 

 and Woodpeckers, to contain fewer species than the preceding 

 ones. 



Kedwing. — Has not been seen for the last five years, and 

 from some cause appears to have deserted the immediate neigh- 

 bourhood. 



Nightingale. — Only occasionally seen in the shrubberies, 

 and does not nest ; the situation is apparently too high for it. 

 About a mile away, in thick hedges on lower ground, it is 

 numerous. 



Just outside my bounds several other Warblers, not included 

 in the list, are common ; these are Wood Wren, Sedge Warbler, 

 and Grasshopper Warbler. Sitting on the lawn one beautiful 

 midsummer night, at least half-a-dozen Grasshopper Warblers 

 were heard " reeling." It was between ten and eleven o'clock, 

 and the village had become hushed in quiet, when first one of 

 these little Warblers began to " reel " in the valley below ; another 

 soon started singing, and then another, until their song was heard 

 proceeding from all directions. I have twice identified the Marsh 

 Warbler by the side of the Vallis brook, about a mile to the south 

 of us ; on one occasion I watched the bird while it was singing in 

 a poplar by the side of the water. 



Sand Martin.— Has been detected nesting in some holes left 

 in the garden-wall where scaffold-poles were once inserted. 



Hawfinch.— Barely seen in the garden in summer ; a pair or 

 two nest annually in the parish ; the village boys have taken the 

 eggs. 



