THE ZOOLOGIST 



No. 881.— November 15th, 1914. 



NOTES ON THE OENITHOLOGY OF OXFORDSHIRE, 



1913. 



By 0. V. Aplin, F.L.S. 



January 9th. — Heard Geese "honking" in the early hours 

 this morning. Mr. Bartlett told me later that three were seen 

 flying over Banbury a day or two ago. 



11th. — Snow. Mild up to now, and birds singing. 



20th. — Blackbird sang a little in a low tone. 



21st. — Song-Thrushes singing again. 



25th. — Chaffinch sang. 



February 3rd. — Blackbird and Chaffinch are now singing well. 



6th. — We have had some number of Song-Thrushes all the 

 winter, and more have come back now, I think. Blackbirds are 

 very numerous. 



7th. — News from Mr. Fowler of a flock of Golden Plovers 

 and a single one at Kingham. 



8th. — When out with the Basset hounds I noticed a few 

 Golden Plovers on the flat high-lying arable and pasture land 

 north of Wroxton, which was heath land not very long ago ; also 

 a flock on the wing. The soft, but wild, call-notes of the 

 " Whistling" Plovers, "plee " or "plee-wee," sound well in this 

 open country. Two Larks sang. 



12th. — An early season, many spring flowers, and a daffodil 

 almost out. 



16th. — Apricot blossom nearly expanded, and the myrobella 

 plum a mass of white. 



19th. — Frosts lately. Mistle-Thrush sang in a bitterly cold 

 wind (31°), but no Song-Thrushes or Blackbirds. 



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