Birds. 621 



Stone chat, S. rubicola. Ditto. 



Greater titmouse, Par us major. Ditto. 



Blue titmouse, P. cwruleus. Ditto. 



Marsh titmouse, P. palustris. Ditto. 



Cole titmouse, P. ater. Not common. 



Long-tailed titmouse, P. caudatus. Common. 



Bearded titmouse, P. biarmicus. Occasionally found in Romney 

 marsh. 



Sky-lark, Alauda arvensis. Abundant. 



Wood-lark, A. arborea. Common. 



Yellow bunting, Emberiza cilrinella. Abundant. 



Common bunting, E. miliaria. Common. 



Reed bunting, E. Sclioeniclus. Ditto. 



Snow bunting, E. nivalis. Common in Romney marsh. 



Cirl bunting, E. Cirlus. Rare. 



Sparrow, Passer domesticus. Abundant. 



Tree sparrow, P. montanus. Tree sparrows are tolerably abun- 

 dant in winter, mixing with the house sparrows and finches. I have 

 met with two or three instances of their breeding in the holes of trees. 



Greenfinch, Fringilla chloris. Abundant. 



Chaffinch, F. cwlebs. Ditto. 



Goldfinch, F. carduelis. Common. 



Brambling, F. montifringilla. Common in winter. I never knew 

 them to breed in Kent, but suspect they occasionally do, as I have 

 seen the old and young birds together in September. 



Mountain linnet, F. monlium. Not uncommon. 



Grey linnet, F. Cannabina. Common. 



Lesser redpoll, F. Linaria. Common in winter. 



Siskin or aberdevine, F. Spin us. Arrives at the end of autumn in 

 considerable flocks. 



Hawfinch, F. Coccothraustes. Visits us in winter, but not in great 

 numbers. 



Pine grosbeak, Corythus enucleator. Has been occasionally killed 

 in Kent. 



Bulfinch, Pyrrhula vulgaris. Common. 



Crossbill, Loxia curvirostra. These cuiious and interesting birds 

 visit the fir-plantations in this neighbourhood in greater or less num- 

 bers nearly every year, appearing in considerable flocks some years in 

 the autumn, while in others only a few stragglers are to be seen. I 

 have shot several very fine-plumaged birds, but from their exceeding 

 tameness it is difficult, in a fir-plantation, to get sufficiently far from 



