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NOTES TO THE 
fBlue Tit. 
Cole Tit. 
Marsh Tit. 
fLono Tailed Tit. 
Pied Wagtail. 
Grey Wagtail. 
Eay's Wagtail 
Tree Pipit. 
Meadow Pipit. 
fSkylark. 
Common Bunting, 
t Chaffinch, 
f House Sparrow. 
Greenfinch. 
Hawfinch. 
Goldfinch. 
■^t Swallow, 
t Martin, 
t Swift. 
Nightjar. 
fWild buck, 
■f- Moorhen. 
Coot. 
Lesser Red pole. 
Bullfinch, 
t Starling, 
t Carrion Crow. 
fRook. 
f Jackdaw. 
Great Spotted Woodpecker, 
f Common Creeper. 
Wren. 
Common Linnet. 
Those marked * have been observed to breed in the Society's 
Gardens ; those marked -|- have been observed by myself or 
Mr. Searle, my secretary, in my little garden, 37, Albany 
Street, or in Regent's Park adjoining. The cuckoo was also seen 
this year, 1875, in the long walk by Mr. Searle. 
Birds' Crops, p. 84. — In his lectures on Geology a.t Oxford, my 
father used to tell us that the sellers of antiquities at Rome had a 
curious and clever way of giving the appearance of antiquity to 
modern gems. Having cut the device on the stones, they thrust 
them down the throat of a turkey into his gizzard ; after the 
proper time had passed they killed the bird ; the stones in the 
crop were then found to have assumed the corrugated appear- 
ance of antiquity from the giinding action of the hard coats 
of the turkey's gizzard. In my collection I have some fine 
specimens of stones found in guano polished by the action 
of birds' stomachs. 
Sedgebird, p. 86. — Mr. Davy thinks it is very likely that 
the bird here mentioned by White was the reed-warbler, or 
reed-wren. If disturbed by any means during the night it 
immediately commences its song, which resembles a mixture 
of other songs of birds, a regular gibberish altogether. In 
some parts of the country they call it the " thousand songster." 
These birds partially resemble the reed-sparrow ; they are 
migratoiy. The young birds do not come to their full plumage 
till the following spring. 
Snake-taming in London, p. 86. — A friend of mine, Mr. Mann, 
Professor of Music, has a most remarkable power of taming 
snakes. I now describe my first introduction to his snakery. 
