June 26, 1891
England.
(no 3)
Chester - un-Corvine in character varying from a whistle
(phen) to a deep keough very like that of our
Green Heron. Their flight is dashing and erratic.
  Swallows in large numbers were skimming close
over the lawn and flying about the gable ends of
the stable and outhouses where nearly every suitable
ledge or niche supported one of their nests this
being built under the eaves or other projections of the
roof precisely in the manner of our Barn Swallows.
The bird's flight call and musical twitter are in
every way exactly the same as those of H. erythrogaster
There was our House Martin's nest plastered against
a vertical stone wall but it was occupied by
a House Sparrow.
  Following a winding walk shaded by large trees
and bordered on one side by a wall arrayed with
ivy we entered the garden. Thrushes were singing
on every side; we saw a little family party of them
or four Marsh Tits which chirped very like our
Paridon; in the tree-tops Willow Warblers were
singing. The last are beautiful singers which I heard
here for the first time. I also saw my first Robin
by this garden wall a singularly tame, mild-eyed
confiding little creature which permitted an
approach to within two or three yards. Its note
was a sharp, mettallic chip almost if not quite
identical with that of our Cardinal. I did
not hear the song on this occasion.
  The gardener took us through several walled
enclosures filled with greenhouses and flower
beds with apple trees trained on trellises and