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man, greedy man ; pick 'em, pick 'em ! " The self-consciousness of 

 the hearer is in many other respects often quaintly appealed to by 

 Thrushes ; but one of the most ludicrous of this kind is the quiet 

 self-satisfied and oft-repeated remark I have heard from one of our 

 Pigeons (I think it is the Stock-Dove), as I grubbed away for spiders 

 under a tree, " Look at the fool, look at the fool ! " The " Take two 

 cows, Taffy " of the Ring-Dove is, of course, well known. What, 

 however, I have now specially taken up my pen for, is to record by 

 musical annotation a Blackbird's song, with which I was regaled in 

 May, 1900, day after day, fur at least three weeks. I did not search 

 closely, but I believe the hen bird was "sitting" close by; at any 

 rate, the old cock sang his strain every day within a radius of twenty 

 yards, as I frequently watched him, and my " den " being also close 

 by with the window open, I became very familiar with his ditty. I 

 may remark that, so far as I could make out, he had no other song at 

 all. The notes were very soft, but yet full, fluty, and rich, and the 

 intonation perfect. I never once detected it either out of time or 

 out of tune. The strain would be repeated, generally, several times in 

 fairly quick but not hurried succession ; now and then it was more 

 distinctly piano than at other times, and occasionally there was a 

 little variation in the expression. When at last the song ceased I felt 

 for some time as if one of my chief pleasures of the day was gone. 

 Meantime, I wrote the strain on a scrap of music-paper, et voild : — 



-A/o cLe**cuto 

 — 0. Pickard- Cambridge (Bloxworth Rectory, Dorset). 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



Having undertaken the Birds for the forthcoming « Victorian 

 History of Suffolk,' and being desirous that the list should be as 

 accurate as possible, may I be allowed to say that I should be very 

 grateful for records of the occurrence of Savi's Warbler, Fire-crested 

 Wren, Cirl Bunting, Golden Eagle, and Roseate Tern? Also for 

 records of the breeding in the county within the last twenty years of 

 the Bearded Tit and Hobby ; and at any date of the breeding of the 

 Pied Flycatcher, Golden Oriole, Hoopoe, Hen-Harrier, Marsh-Harrier, 

 Kite, Bittern, Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, Sandwich Tern, Gadwall, 

 and Tufted Duck?— Julian G. Tuck (Tostock Rectory, Bury St. 

 Edmunds, Suffolk). 



