1891.
July 4
(no 7)
England.
Wells. - feeble tehee, or tehee-dee very like that of
our Chickadee when nesting. None give the full
chick a dee-dee-dee note. The Blue Tut has a low but
rather pleasing warbling song of four or five syllables.
I have done the Wren injustice. The song is one
of the very finest to be heard in England and
nearly if not quite equate*[equates] to that of our Winter
Wren. It resembles that of the latter closely
in form but is more warbling and less like the
notes of a music box. Perhaps the bird I heard
this afternoon was an exceptionally fine singer!
  A little bird about the size of a Black-cap Warbler
but rather stouter, above ashy brown, beneath ashy-
white, cheeks gray, crown, [delete]and[/delete] chin and throat
jet black, no wing bars visable*[visible], puzzled me utterly.
It kept in the tops of some low yew trees and
was exceedingly active, hopping lightly from twig to
twig and fluttering its wings like a Knight. For
long periods at a time it sang at brief intervals
uttering a shrill, wiry pitse, pitse, pitse, pitse
pitse, closely similar to that of our Mniotilta.
It behaved like a Warbler but the form &
markings suggested a Titmouse. [Isby?] gives neither
Warbler nor Tit that [agrees?] with it. 
   The Greenfinch is the bird with undulating
flight & Cross-bil*[Cross-bill]-like call note that I heard &
saw at Tintern. There were several pairs with
young just out in this garden. The song of
the male is composed of twitters, trills and
chanting notes some of which closely resemble those
of our Goldfinch. It is very pleasing but not