June 26, 1891
England.
(no 9)
Chester - uttered its sharp, rattling alarm cry at intervals.
  Moor hens also called occasionally in the woods
where they are said to nest very numerously along
the ditches. Their notes are similar to those of our
Gallinule but yet all are more or less different. The
[kup?] cry was the nearest to our birds.
  As we entered the woods a Jay flew past us
uttering a loud cha-cha-cha-cha very like that
of Aphalocoma floridana. In a thicket near the
ditch we heard and saw a White-throat Warbler
singing. Its voice is rough and disagreeable to
my ears, a loud, conscious songster.
  I found a Thrush's nest containing two eggs.
It was built in the fork of a young ash very 
like a Wood Thrush's. The parents' feathers were
scattered profusely in and about the nest.
Newstead thought that she had been [?]
and killed by a Hawk while sitting.
  Besides the birds just named we heard or
saw in this swamp a few Blackbirds; one
Robin. Rooks, Jackdaws & Wood Pigeons were
also seen flying over. The singing birds numbered
only five species vis. Thrush, Blackbird, Willow
Warbler, White-throat and Turtle Dove. We had
a piece of woods in Massachusetts at such a 
time one would be sure of hearing at least
a dozen different species. There was quite as
much if not more noise here, however.
  Leaving the heronry (it is said to contain
about 40 inhabited nests this year but
I believe this to be an exaggerated estimate)