166 C. AND U. CANDLER’S NOTES FROM THE NETHERLANDS. 
IV. 
NOTES FROM THE NETHERLANDS. 
By Charles and Henry Candler. 
Read 25tli November, 1800. 
There are moments in the life of every man who delights in 
watching the habits and the movements of our wild birds which 
are not readily forgotten. He has seen, it may be, for the first 
time in its summer haunts some bird which in winter dress has 
been familiar to him from childhood, or which perhaps (and in this 
case the impression is the stronger) has become so closely associated 
in his mind with a vanished order of things, that the sight of it 
enables him to restore in imagination the moors and marshes of his 
own land to their old wildness, and to people them again with 
forms which unhappily have passed away for ever. At such times 
there is a strong impulse to share with kindred spirits a new 
experience, and to fix pleasant memories before the lapse of time 
has done anything to rob them of their freshness. It is rather in 
response to such an impulse, than with any hope of adding to the 
sum of ornithological knowledge, that the following notes have 
been written. 
I. The Shores of Texel. 
Texel is the southernmost of a series of islands, which, known 
by different names in different portions of the chain, fringes the 
coast of Europe from the Ilclder to the Horn of Jutland, a 
distance of nearly three hundred miles. Texel is separated from 
the mainland of Holland by the Marsdiep, a strait a mile and a 
half in width, which, kept open by the scour of a strong tide, 
