418 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



14th, about 7.30, and getting dusk, only a few Song-Thrushes 

 still singing, as I was coming along the Icknield "Way, a good- 

 sized flock of Fieldfares, followed by another, flew overhead, 

 coming from the down, and calling loudly. They flew north- 

 west, and, as it seemed too late in the evening for them to be 

 leaving feeding-grounds (even if they were likely to be going to 

 roost in the low arable land), I thought they were starting on 

 migration. 



The Long-eared Owl, a resident in some numbers in the west 

 of the county, bred, as it has often done previously, again this 

 year in two fir spinneys on the high land between Shipton and 

 Burford. 



16th. — Cuckoo, Wheatear, Tree-Pipit, Eedstart, Blackcap, and 

 Nightingale. 



18th. — Carrion-Crows sitting on three eggs since the 16th. 



20th. — A clutch of four Crow's eggs brought in. 



21st. — Sand-Martins near the Tadmarton breeding-place. 



22nd. — Clutch of six Magpie's eggs brought in. 



23rd. — The Crow whose eggs were taken on the 18th was on 

 the nest this evening. The nest is so difficult to get at that I 

 dare not send up again. Ray's Wagtail and Wryneck here, 



24th. — Lesser Whitethroat, Whitethroat, Grasshopper- War- 

 bler, and Sedge-Warbler. ' Saw a pair of Wrynecks near Milcomb, 

 quite scarce birds here. The first day for a week we have seen 

 any migrants about. 



(To be continued.) 



