194
Dinant, Belgium.
1897
July 18.
(No.2.)
notes which reminds me of our Parus hudsonicus being
similarly emphatic and distinctly annunciated. It also utters
a low chee-dee-dee-dee very like that of young Parus atrica-
pillus. The smaller wood birds here, as in England, are si-
lent and shy - or at least retiring - when conscious of
the near presence of man. As I walk in the terraced gardens thread-
ing the narrow foot path that winds by easy grades up the face
of the cliff, the dense thickets of hazel and lilacs, the 
clusters of locusts and Norway spruces and the ivy-clad walls
of weathered blackish limestone seem alike silent and deserted
but within a minute or two after I have stopped and seated my-
self under some slight cover Warblers, Redstarts, Robins, Hedge
Sparrows, Wrens, Titmice, etc. begin to show themselves or to
call to one another from every side. If I rise and advance
towards one of them they all disappear in a twinkling. The
Titmice are the tamest and least suspicious but even they ob-
ject to a too close inspection.
  One bird which I have not yet identified has a call note
exactly like that of Geothylpis trichas. But the only bird
here whose notes are all and at all times wholly familiar
is the Swallow. There are positively no differences in either
his flight call or twittering song from those of our Barn
Swallow.