after I began timing him - which was
fully 1½ minutes after he began singing.
Corn Buntings common singing in grain
fields.
  At Stonehenge several pairs of Sparrows
nesting in Druid stones. They looked like
P. [Passer] montanus but chirped like domesticus.
Air full of Skylarks, seven or eight often
up at once, literally not a break in their 
singing for 2 hours. Four or five hares
feeding in a grassy hollow, huge fellows
sitting erect like rabbits or squatting in
grass. They started at 100 yds [yards] or further
& ran very like antelope, wholly
unlike rabbits, tail showed white when
sitting but dark when running.
  Drive back very varied & beautiful.
Swallows flying about chimney tops, one
entering, another feeding young sitting
on chimney. No chimney pots. Thatched 
roofs very numerous.
  Many Lapwings heard cry, a Plover-like call
Sand Martins over river. Starlings in
immense flocks.
Winchester
July 25. - Clear, still, and rather warm.
A Wren singing this morning in a garden
opposite the hotel at Salisbury.
  We left Salisbury by 10.40 train for
Winchester changing cars at East Junction
and reaching our destination about 1 P.M..
Saw about 200 Rooks, two Partridges, and
a few Skylarks & Yellow Hammers [sic] [Yellowhammers] from the
train.
  To Royal George, an old inn where Thackery
once stayed, lately remodelled. It now has
an inner court roofed with glass & filled
with ferns, palms & vines, the floor of 
tiles, a fountain with gold fish etc.
To Cathedral immediately after arrival.
Fine building, the largest cathedral in
England in perfect preservation, the
exterior rather ugly, the interior very
beautiful. No birds except, perhaps, Sparrows
nesting in its walls.
  Lunch at 2 P.M. At 4 start for
old school. Beautiful cloisters with
timber roofs many Swallows nesting