OF SELBOKNE. 16? 



A gentleman assures me he has taken the 

 nests of ring-ousels* on Dartmoor : they 

 build in banks on the sides of streams. 



Titlarks-f not only sing sweetly as they 

 sit on trees, but also as they play and toy 

 about on the wing ; and particularly while 

 they are descending, and sometimes as 

 they stand on the ground. 



Adansons'^ testimony seems to me to be 

 a very poor evidence that European swal- 

 lows migrate during our winter to Senegal ; 

 he does not talk at all like an ornithologist ; 

 and probably saw only the swallows of that 

 country, which I know build within Go- 

 vernor O' Hara's hall against the roof. Had 

 he known European swallows, would he 

 not have mentioned the species ? 



The house-swallow washes by dropping 

 into the water as it flies : this species ap- 

 pears commonly about a week before the 

 house-martin, and about ten or twelve days 

 before the swift 



* British Zoology, vol. i. p. 229- 

 t Vol. ii, p. 237. t P- 242, 



