168 NATURAL HISTORY 



In 1772 there were young house-mar- 

 tins* in their nest till October the twenty- 

 third. 



The swijt'\ appears about ten or twelve 

 days later than the house- swallow : viz, 

 about the twenty-fourth or twenty-sixth 

 of April, . _ 



Whin- chats and stone-chatters^ stay with 

 us the whole year. 



Some wheat-ears§ continue with us the 

 Winter through. 



Wagtails, all sorts, remain with us all 

 the Winter. 



Bulfinches,|| when fed on hempseed, 

 often become wholly black. 



We have vast flocks of female chaf- 

 finches^ all the Winter, with hardly any 

 males among them. 



When you say that in breeding time the 

 qock-snipes** make a bleating noise, and 

 I a drumming (perhaps I should have ra- 



* British Zoology, vol. ii. p. 244. t P. J^45. 

 X p. 270, 271. § P. 269. II P. 300. 



H P. 306, ** P. 356. 



