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The fwlft'^ appears about ten or tzvelve days later than the houfe- 
fwallow : viz. about the twenty-fourth or twenty-fixth of April 
Whin-chats and Jlo7ie-chatters'^ flay whh us the whole year. 
Some wheat-ears'^ continue with us the winter through. 
Wagtails, all forts, remain with us all the winter. 
Bulfinches, ^ when fed on hempfeed, often become wholly 
black. 
We have vaft flocks female chaffinches'" all the winter, with 
hardly any males among them. 
When you fay that in breeding-time the cock-fnipes s make a 
bleating noife, and I a drumming (perhaps I ihould have rather 
faid an humming), I fufpeil we mean the fame thing. However, 
while they are playing about on the wing they certainly make a 
loud piping with their mouths : but whether that bleating or 
humming is ventrlloquous, or proceeds from the motion of their 
wings, I cannot fay; but this I know, that when this noife hap- 
pens the bird is always defcending, and his wings are violently 
agitated. 
Soon after the lapwings have done breeding they congregate, 
and, leaving the moors and marflies, betake themfelves to downs 
and flieep-walks. 
Two years ago ' laft fpring the little auk was found alive and 
unhurt, but fluttering and unable to rife, in a lane a few miles 
from Alresford, where there ie a great lake : it was kept awhile, 
but died. 
1 faw young teals'^ taken alive in the ponds of IFolmer-foreft in 
the beginning of Jidy laft, along with flappers, or young wild- 
ducks. 
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