1891. 
July 8
(No 3)
England.
Ilfracombe to Clovelly. - The young are now on
wing in large numbers. They are largely of a yellowish
color and at first I took them to be adult birds of
some other species.
   Next to the Chaffinch the Yellow Hammer was the
commonest small bird along these roads and it
was the only bird that sang at all freely. It is
especially fond of perching on telegraph wires which
it seldom leaves for a passing  train. The song is
very slight but rather pretty and not in the 
least like that of our Savanna Sparrow to which
Burroughs compares it. The first part is a somewhat 
confused, twittering warble to which, after a slight
pause, the bird adds two notes in a lower key & given
slowly, very distinctly and with marked emphasis.
thus mm (warble); dee`, dee`.  The effect is very odd.
The warbling portion seems complete in itself and 
the pause is first sufficient to convince the
listener that the song has ceased when, like
an afterthought, comes the terminal dee, dee.
Sometimes these added notes are omitted.
   Besides the species just mentioned I saw about
the usual number of Rooks, Jackdaws, Wood Pigeons
& House Sparrows, a few Blackbirds, two [?]
Thrushes (hopping about in a newly mown field),
a Kestrel (hovering over a field), a Sparrow Hawk
(my first, skimming along a hedge row, its
form & flight exactly like that of our A. [?]
but the bird appearing larger, in fact nearly
as large as A. cooperi) and  two specimens
of a bird new to me but which I took to be