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eggs brought in to-day consisted of two very hard-sat and one 

 addled egg. Six Magpie's eggs were fresh. 



7th. — Several Swifts. Two Nightingales reported from Blox- 

 ham Grove. A clutch of Crow's eggs consisted of three very 

 hard-sat and two addled ones. 



9th. — Spotted Flycatcher. Some of the summer migrants I 

 have missed seeing altogether this season. Jackdaw's clutch 

 was tw 7 o half-incubated and one addled eggs. These addled eggs 

 are due to the snow, I suppose. 



10 th.— Turtle-Dove. 



12th. — Shot some young Books ; some few could fly. This 

 is the average day for shooting them, so it is evident that plenty 

 of young Books survived the snowstorms, although it is difficult 

 to understand how the old ones got any food. As usual at this 

 rookery, some of the young birds showed more or less white 

 about their beaks and claws. Bedstart (scarce this year) and 

 Lesser Whitethroat first noticed, although a nest of the latter 

 had three eggs the next day. 



15th. — Away from home until June 4th. A male Nightjar 

 was sent to me from Banbury on May 25th. 



June 4th. — Mistle-Thrush singing. 



9th. — A Turtle-Dove's nest in a hedge had a distinct lining, 

 worked so that it held tegether, of thick herbaceous plant-stems. 

 There is a great variety in these nests. In the longest evenings, 

 when they are bright, Song-Thrushes stop singing in this garden 

 at 9.10 p.m. Blackbirds stop a good deal earlier. In the hilly 

 grass-fields at the back of the garden, which catch the light 

 longer, the Thrushes sing a little later. 



19th. — A pair of Shrikes at the old place near the railway 

 station. 



23rd.— Beport that there were three Crested Grebes and a 

 nest with one egg on the water at Eynsham Hall on April 

 24th. 



30th. — Examined a clutch of eight Sparrow-Hawk's eggs 

 taken at Chadlington on May 5th. Saw a Hobby on the wing 

 near Churchill. 



June a cold, rather dry month, with much N.E. wind. A 

 little over two inches of rain fell on seven davs, over an inch of 

 which fell in one day. 



