June 24, 1891
England.
(no 3)
Chester - sounded like chee-chit-chee-chit-chee-chit,
chit-chit-chit-chit-chit. Of course it could
have been nothing other than a Chiff Chaff.
  At wider intervals and more irregularly a strong,
sweet, flowing song came from the interior of
the woods. In general character it resembled
the song of our Orchard Oriole and some of the
notes were practically identical. I took the
author to be a Chaffinch (a Burroughs Impressions)
  Twice in some dense shrubbery very near me
I heard a song that recalled our Winter Wren's.
It had the same gushing, lyrical quality but
was shorter and less leisurely. The bird must
have been either a Wren or a Redbreast.
  A Ring Dove cooed many times in
succession, at brief intervals, on the edge of
some dense woods giving the notes precisely
as I have heard them from caged birds.
(coo, coo-hoo-hoo). Its voice was hoarse and
characterless compared to that of our Carolina
Dove.
  There were several other songs which I 
did not succeed in identifying and which
made no lasting impression on me. One,
I remember, resembled that of our Goldfinch
and may have been the song of the
European [?].
  High in an oak on the end of a dead
branch sat a little bird which I identified
by my glass as a Spotted Flycatcher. Its
short flights up and out after passing insects