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9th. — A few Wagtails on ploughing. 



12th. — Many Martins on roof early in morning. 



13th. — Five Eed Admirals close together. Chiffchaff in song 

 all the month. 



19th. — Saw a silver-grey Hare (vide 'Zoologist,' 1915, p. 67). 



20th. — A big gathering of Martins. 



23rd. — A frost this morning. For the first time there were 

 Meadow-Pipits in the root fields ; many of them. 



24th. — Swallows and Martins gone, all but a very few. 



27th. — A pair of Martins. 



30th. — Here still and one or two other birds. A very good 

 Partridge season ; the best for a good many years. Eed-legged 

 Partridges have made up their thinned ranks to some extent. 



A fine dry, warm month. Eain (1'30 inches) fell on eight days. 



October 2nd. — About a score of Martins and a few Swallows 

 together ; passing birds, doubtless. 



4th. — A few Martins here. A good many Jays about recently ; 

 too early for migrants (cf. August 18th). 



5th.— A few Martins here. 



6th. — A Song-Thrush sang, the first this autumn. Larks 

 singing (last heard, July 18th). Wren and Hedge- Sparrow sing. 



11th. — Country dust-dry. Trees and hedges change fast. 



12th. — Very few migratory Meadow-Pipits this year. 



14th. — The first rain for weeks. 



22nd. — Pied Wagtail singing. 



Eain (1"62 inches) on eleven days. 



November 1st. — Hedges thinned ; tree leaves all turned and 

 many down. 



7th. — A Common Buzzard seen at South Newington Hill to 

 rise from a field where Pheasants and poultry had been reared. 

 My informant, a Somerset man, knows this bird very well. 



10th. — A Water-Eail in South Newington osiers. A few 

 Meadow-Pipits in fields. Fieldfares have arrived and are 

 scattered about in very small numbers. A Greenfinch sang. 



14th. — A few Eedwings. 



15th. — Weather changed. Slight snow after frost. 



18th. — A Nuthatch at the Grove, and some Bramblings 

 heard. Larks have been silenced by the colder weather. A 

 Corn-Bunting sang. 



