WIIEATEAR. 
SAXICOLA (ENANTIIE. 
Almost every portion of the open districts in the British Islands is visited by the Wlieatear. The first 
arrivals usually make their appearance on the south coast about the end of Marcli or early in April As 
st3Jf "T “'-‘t ™ neighbourhood, a continued 
stream of fiesh comers may be noticed on favourable mornings in the vicinity of the shore. The birds 
tha remain during the summer on the downs of Sussex are, I believe, among the first to show themselves 
on h! Mr' 1 r i>“nts among the sheltered hollows 
the eL “anile T" ‘,1"’'', on 
:1. f .°7‘’ 7 “»»-lands of the north, are each tenanted in succession-the 
counties rdlvInTuairtaMritLIl^^^^^^^ seasons) passing on towards the northern 
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coa.ll 1 It ‘'atochments usually reach the marshes in the vicinity of the south 
as about the beginning of August, a few stragglers being occasionally seen at an earlier Ite 
middlelf sTptZber A feZ <lo m>t fall off till about the 
rniriZrocibi®'' ™ ^ °f b-swou 
burZlZTrnlolelsUuTIoI ll "”1''““ Tt““' “ ““’a frequently placed in a rabbit- 
times, holes in bairaZ^r The”Zlt: r alwl^ TZ“ 
Wtis on Anril 1 Tr» i n i - i «-cioss tile nest containing e^^s 
near IhZ, ke hill n S sex “le f “ Z'll -^“row in a warm and sheltered^aB:; 
full complement of eggs bTe thread of I”!! p*’" “ this locality have, I believe, their 
continent may still be observed on the beach and ilthrieldralonlthellarr “““ 
be somewhat perplexed to reconeile The ImflfcTtoZreTrrts tha7he™r* TT ^ 
and bushes,- while possibly the next referred to declares “ tTe l;!!! tririr!:: t::s‘‘:i 
