edyc tlircc or four red Godwits, and ilic ellcct was very pretty of 
the birds passing each other. The colony of Lesser Terns at Lj-c 
is, I suspect, like that at Blakeney on the coast of Norfolk, 
getting stronger. At Ityc they exceed the Common Tern 
in number as much as they surpass it in beauty. The Black- 
headed Gull, which is the commonest of the tribe of Gulls at 
St. Leonards, received a manifest increase to its numbeis in the 
early part of May, but a large decrease was perceptible at the close 
of that mouth. At the same time the Common Gull almost 
entiiely disappeared, and it was most curious to see liow deserted 
the sea was, and not the sea only, but the sliore where before there 
had been so many birds ot the wading class, and also the country. 
1 ho Tellow "Wagtails, the Whinchats, the AVheatears, had nearly 
all gone, leaving only a tithe ot their former numbers; the Lapwing, 
the 1 ied Wagtails, the Stouechat, and the Hirnnilhies remained, but 
their ranks were much diminished. On the other hand, thei-e are 
many birds in Sussex which seem totiiUy unalfected by the Spring 
inigration. The Jackdaw, the IMagpie, the Starling, the Meadow 
Bipit, &c., were <is numerous when we left St. Leonards in June 
as when o arrived in March, nor could I see that at any time their 
1 links were augmented by the arrival of new-comers from abroad, 
iherc is one other class, to which belong the Cuckoo and the Ited- 
backed Shrike, which the country about St Leonai-ds seems 
particularly adapted to, and which, though true spring migrants, 
continued as plentiful as ever Avhen June set in, and the host 
of their conjrh'es had gone north. 
