1891.
July 9
(No 6)
England.
Clovelly. - and at least two prize white ones. The
fawns were frisking about like lambs butting at
and chasing one another at full speed over
the smooth turf, some of them running very
fast, striking all four feet exactly together like
Prong Horns. The older animals usually trot. 
  I saw a great number of larger, jet black, 
shellless*[shell less] snails crawling on the gravel paths
in the park. When teased with a stick they
quickly cover themselves with a viscid secretion
which seems to exude from the pores over
all parts of the body. 
  Butterflies are getting more numerous. I 
saw at least eight to-day. It is strange
that there are so few in a country where
wild-flowers are a hundred-fold more
abundant than with us.
  Titmice are far more numerous and generally
distributed in England than with us. I heard
their [?] [?] everywhere in oaks woods to-day and
saw them whenever I scanned the tree tops
long and carefully enough. The Blue Tit
seems to be the commonest species here.
I also saw many Warblers high in the oaks.
They are among the most silent of all birds
seldom uttering any calls to one another
except when anxious about their young most
of which are now on wing. They are active
little birds resembling our Helminthophilae
very closely in motions and manner of 
feeding near the ends of the branches.
  I saw two Woodpecker's holes & one bird, A Green Woodpecker