472 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



This makes sixty-seven, and I still hear their cry over the 

 moor. 



At 6 come three more, also from amphitheatre. Still hear 

 the note near on moor. It sounds like a single note. All these 

 birds were flying south. 



At 6.2 leave. 



October 16th. — Between 5 and 5.30 p.m. walked to the amphi- 

 theatre, and, searching it well with the glasses, could see no 

 birds. Leaving at 5.30, and taking no precautions to conceal 

 myself, I did not put up any, and conclude there were none 

 there, or only some few at a distance. I then walked to the 

 bank, where I arrived at about 5.35 or 5.40. Searching the 

 heather, I could see no birds there ; but now very dark for the 

 glasses. 



Until a minute or two before 6 there was no cry, but it then 

 began, though to a much less extent even than latterly. Half a 

 dozen birds or less would have been quite sufficient for what I 

 heard. 



At 6.10 one bird flew by me over the bank (north, that is; I 

 had seen none before) uttering its note, and from then I heard 

 no more cries till 6.14, when I thought I heard one very faint one, 

 but cannot be sure. From then till 6.20, when I left, I heard 

 nothing more. (The last, I think, was a mistake.) I believe 

 the notes for some time had been those of the solitary bird that 

 flew by me. 



October 16th. — Walked up road by moor, and arrived at usual 

 place at 5.50 p.m. 



In a moment or two three birds flew by, and shortly after a 

 fourth. I heard the cry of a fifth bird flying farther off. 



At 5.57 heard the note of another, and again a moment 

 afterwards. 



6.0. — A note from a bird, I think, flying. 



Saw or heard no others up to 6.10, when I left. 



October 17th. — Same place as yesterday at 5.40 p.m., and at 

 5.49 heard first notes of the Plovers. 



5.45. — One bird flies by silently. Hear others in heath, but 

 there do not appear to be many. 



5.51. — Eleven birds fly off in silence. Still hear note in 

 heather. 



