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26th. — Chiffchaff still singing in garden. 



28th. — The wet and cold notwithstanding, we have had a few 

 butterflies ; three Red Admirals close together in the garden 

 to-day, and a few all the month ; a Peacock on 25th ; and one 

 Painted Lady before the cold pinch. 



Piainfall 2*07 in. on eleven days. 



October 1st. — Many Song-Thrushes in turnip-fields. Flocks 

 of Linnets in thin weedy swedes, and some Meadow-Pipits. 



5th. — Torrents of rain and very stormy early ; the country 

 very wet. Meadow-Pipits swarming in turnip-fields, and some 

 roosting in grass. Many Song-Thrushes in hedges and turnips. 

 Hardly any reduction yet in the numbers of Swallows and 

 Martins. Larks singing all about, as also on the 1st. 



6th. — Another storm. Much barley, cut and uncut, out. 

 One of the fine old walnut-trees at Milcombe is much decayed, 

 and in it Mr. E. Colegrave has found the following nests at one 

 time, viz. House- Sparrow, Tree-Creeper, Flycatcher, Starling, 

 Stock-Dove, and Great and Blue Tits. In other years there 

 have been nests of the Jackdaw and Redstart. Two fine old 

 plane-trees on the banks of the Swere at Barford used to hold a 

 small rookery, and were frequented in the breeding season by 

 Starlings, Jackdaws, Tree- Sparrows, and the Barn-Owl, which I 

 have seen emerge from one of the larger hollows. 



7th. — Mistle-Thrush sang a little. 



9th. — At Langley, on the high ground, many Pipits in turnips 

 and kale, and a good many Thrushes ; flocks of Linnets. A 

 Stonechat on a wire-fence ; they do not breed there. Mr. Calvert 

 told me he saw eight Quail on Sept. 8th, and shot one ; the rest 

 went into standing corn ; he heard one calling in the spring. 

 On the 2nd inst. he shot a Land-Rail, and saw another in long 

 benty grass the next day. About the end of last month he saw 

 a Curlew fly over. Mr. Fowler writes from Kingham on the 

 9th, " Still young Martins in the nest over my bedroom window." 

 The Evenlode valley partly flooded, and rushes growing in the 

 meadows. 



11th. — Torrents of rain, and low part of village flooded again. 



13th. — To Hook Norton to see a Shag which was seen to 

 alight on a mill-pond near there on the 8th, and was caught 

 alive. A good many Martins here, and some Swallows here 



