1891.
July 9
(No. 4)
England.
Clovelly - in the manner of our Sitta carolinensis but
uttering, to my great surprise, a faint lisping call exactly
like that of a Dendroica. Perhaps they also made a 
shrill, piping whistle which I afterwards heard in these
woods but could not trace to its source. Newstead
told me that the European Nuthatch makes such a
whistle.
  As I was watching the Nuthatches a movement
among some tall, dense ferns in the swale below
attracted my attention and presently a doe thrust
up her head and looked timidly around making
a pretty picture. Seeing nothing she came out and
trotted along a path at the base of a wooded slope.
She was a third larger than the Fallow Deer and
colored nearly like our Virginia Deer but with a 
black stripe on the side of the rump. 
  At 7 P.M. I started back. The sun was now low in
the west and scores of Rabbits were feeding along
the wood edges but they were so shy and their
senses of sight and hearing so keen that long
before I could get within gun range they
would scamper back into the woods. Wood
Pigeons were uttering their hoarse, deep cooing
on all sides and the air was filled with
Jackdaws flying towards some pine woods where
there was evidently a roost. I heard nothing
singing here but as I approached the park 
gates the notes of a Chiffchaff and a Wren
came from the dense belt of trees along the
road. There were also several Robins among 
the rhododendrons but none sang.