1891.  England.
June 29
(No 2)
Railroad Journey.
Chester to Hereford. - the apples trees in England is curiously
thin. The trees themselves are large and vigorous [deleted]looking[/deleted]
but one can look directly through their tops. This seems
to be due to the fact that their leaves are smaller and
fewer than with us. As a rule the trees grow taller and 
"weedier".
  Birds were exceedingly numerous along the railroad,
Rooks and Starlings predominating in numbers. Nearly
every pasture contained twenty to fifty of the former and 
the latter were continually rising from the mowing fields
in flocks of a dozen to fifty or more. Their evolutions 
remind one of those of our Blackbirds but their
flight is like that of Sturnella.
  Lapwings were also numerous. We usually saw them
sitting motionless on the turf in pairs, apparently
paying no attention to the train. They were all in
meadow pastures, none on ploughed or cultivated land.
Some fields contained several pairs each and in
one fully 30 birds were assembled in a flock.
A few birds rose and flew and few rods showing 
a conspicuous white rump and broad short wings.
The appearance of the bird in the air is curiously
Owl-like. Sitting it is an overgrown Plover of
black and white markings.
  I saw my first Partridge running swiftly over
a pasture and a Moor-hen (Gallinula) feeding on
smooth, close-cropped turf several rods from a little pit
and not thirty yards from the railroad. It did
not even raise its head as the train passed.
  A Heron (A. [?]) rose from a meadow where
there were several ditches bordered by rushes and