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confirmed by his successors. The ‘ Cheltenham Working 
Naturalists’ scouring the country in force for several years, 
have added less than might have been expeoted, and found 
not many mistakes in his work. The ‘ Cheltenham Working 
Naturalists’ Association ’ was founded November 7th, 1861. 
The original members were— Barnard, Beach, Norwood, 
Notcutt, W T addy, and W’heeler. To these Wright, Marshall, 
Wilson, Bird, and others were added.” 
Roland Austin. 
III. Wild Birds observed in Painswick District, 1919. 
The summer has been remarkable for the unusual number of 
cuckoos through this portion of the Cotteswold, and also by 
the results of the curious survival of the comparatively frail- 
looking chaffinch as against the more robust garden-birds 
during the severe winters of two and four years ago. These 
birds were again very numerous, whereas the number of thrushes 
and blackbirds has not yet recovered the normal. The white- 
throat and the spotted fly-catcher have nested here, and also 
the rose-linnet, of which latter the male bird of the nest was 
so brilliant in his breast colouring as to be easily mistaken 
for an escaped cage-bird. The nest was in a five-foot yew hedge. 
Of the rarer birds the greater-spotted woodpecker appeared 
twice on consecutive August mornings early, and stayed for 
a few minutes, busy on a sophora Japonica tree. On the 19th 
a flight of fourteen hawfinches alighted on the tops of a great 
green-beech and were busy for a quarter of an hour among the 
beech-nuts, and them took themselves off. The hobby has 
been seen two or three times.- 
The presence of the bird-name Kite in local names, such 
as Kitley near Bisley and Kite’s Nest near Pitchcombe, may be 
referred to the common buzzard, still occasionally to be met 
with hereabouts. The word buzzard is a mediaeval introduc- 
tion from the French romances (from Latin Buteo). 
St. Clair Baddeley. 
