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for him on the following day, bat he was gone. This is the latest 

 date at which I ever myself saw any of the swallow tribe. I take it, 

 they come down to this ancient cinque-port, and, like so many other 

 travellers, make a very short sojourn previously to their departure for 

 foreign climes; for I recollect, in the year 1831, observing two swifts 

 at Dover, a little before dusk on the evening of September the lOtli. 

 They were not to be seen the next day, nor had I seen any previously 

 since the 14th of August, as recorded in the * Magazine of Natural 

 History.' — W. T. Bree ; Allesley Rectory, near Coventry, Feb. 8, 1843. 



Note on the late departure of the Swallow in 1841. As I was walk- 

 ing along the Beverley road on the l'2th of November, 1841, at noon, 

 the sun shining unusually warm at the time, I was surprised to hear 

 overhead the well-known but pleasing twitter of the common swallow 

 [Hlnindo rustica) ; and looking towards the direction from which the 

 sounds came, I observed two of the above-named birds flying about, 

 and apparently enjoying themselves as if it were summer; being most 

 probably allured from their hybemating places by the warmth of the 

 weather, and the abundance of small flies which were hovering about. 

 In the morning there had been a keen frost, and the weather for the 

 next week was unusually severe for the season, the ground being co- 

 vered with snow to the depth of four or five inches. The usual time 

 for the reappearance of the swallow in this neighbourhood is generally 

 about the I6th of April, sooner or later, according to the state of the 

 weather. — Geo. Norman; Hull, February 9, 1843. 



Note on Water-birds occurring at Kingsbury reservoir. I have 

 sent a rough list of water-birds, including the waders, obtained or seen 

 near Kingsbury reservoir, a large sheet of water about five miles north 

 of London, on the Edgeware road, which has been made about eight 

 years. Specimens of those marked thus * are in my collection ; and 

 I have not put one in the list that I am not sure of its having occurred. 

 *Golden Plover, Charadrius pluvialis *B;ii-tailed Godvvit, Limosa rufa 



*Rino^ Dotterel, Charadrius Hiaticula Huff, Machetes pugnax 



* Lapwing or Peewit, Vanellus cristatus *Pigmy Curlew, Tnnga suharquata 

 Oyster-catcher, Hcematopus Ostralegus ^Dunlin, Tringa alpina [ininckii 



Common Heron, Ardea cinerea *Temminck's Sandpiper, Tringa Tem- 



Bittern, Botaurus stellaris *Little Stint, Triiiga minuta 



'^"^Little Bittern, Botaums minutus *Grey Phalarope, Phalaropus lohatus 



Night Heron, Nycticorax europmis *Greenshank, Totanus glottis 



*Curlew, Numenius arquata Dusky or spotted Redshank, Tot.fuscus^ 



^Solitary Snipe, Scolopax major *Green Sandpiper, Totanus ocropus 



^Common Snipe, Scolopax Gallinago *Wood Sandpiper, Totanus glareola 



*Jack Snipe, Scolopax Gatlimda ^Common Sandpiper, Totanus hypoleua 



Black-tailed Godwit, Limosa melannra * Water Rail, Rallus aqua/ tens 



