652 Birds. 



Note on the arrival of Summer Birds at Leicester, in 1844. 



Wheatear arrives, March 28 Cuckoo arrives and sings (An- 



Chiff-chaff arrives and sings,... April 9 sty woodlands), April 22 



Willow-wren arrives and sings, 13 Redstart arrives (Dr. Noble's 



Chimney swallow arrives, 17 grounds), 22 



House martin arrives, 18 Wryneck first heard in Ansty 



Yellow wagtail arrives, 18 Lordship, 22 



Bank or sand martin arrives... 21 Blackcap warbler ar. and sings 22 



Whitethroat arrives and sings, 22 Sedge-warbler ar. and chatters 26 



Whin-chat, ditto, 22 Black swift arrives, May 12 



Tree pipit, ditto, 22 



Up to the time of my writing this extract, the flycatcher has not appeared in Leices- 

 tershire ; at least, I have not seen it. — James Rarley ; Leicester, 



Note of the arrival of Summer Birds near Derby, in 1844. Annexed is the list of 

 the time of appearance this year of some of the summer birds of passage in this neigh- 

 bourhood, agreeably to a request made on the cover of ' The Zoologist,' and which I 

 hope will be useful. 



Cuckoo, April 10 House martin, April 29 



Yellow wagtail, 10 Landrail, May 2 



Swallow, 16 Red-backed shrike, 8 



Whitethroat, 18 Spotted flycatcher, 13 



Willow-wren, 18 Sedge-warbler, 13 



Swift, 28 



Robert John Bell , Michleover House, Derby, May 17, 1844. 



Notes on the arrival of our Summer Birds of Passage at Melbourne, Co. Derby, in 

 the spring of 1844. 

 April 5. A few sand martins seen on the river Trent. Wind S.E. 



6. Chiff-chaff heard on the Rookery, near Newton hall. Wind S.E. 



6. Willow-warbler heard on some osiers near Weston-cliff. Wind S.E. 



7. Ray's wagtail. A single male seen on a fallow. Wind E. 



13. Blackcap warbler, (the males arrived). Wind N. Several weeks earlier 



than usual. 

 15. Wood-warbler. Wind N. 



15. A single swallow appeared at Newton. Wind N. 



16. A party of nearly twenty sand-martins seen on the Trent, a very brisk north 



wind blowing. 



19. Several swallows appeared at Newton. Wind N. 



20. Common whitethroat. 



20. Blackcap warbler. The male birds generally precede the females, as far as 

 I am able to judge, by from five to eight days. At the date here given, 

 I noticed three females about the same patch of hedgerow, and as none 

 had before been visible, I concluded that they had just arrived. 



23. Cuckoo heard. 



23. Wryneck appeared. A little bird generally seen flying in the wake of the 

 cuckoo is the wryneck, and from its close attendance upon her, has gain- 

 ed the name of " cuckoo's maid " or mate. Nearly every year these two 

 birds make their appearance at the same period. Wind W. 



23. Sedge-warbler and Reed-warbler. 



