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BIRDS OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD. 
BIKDS OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF BIRMINGHAM.* 
BY J. BETTERIDGE. 
The following list of birds met with in a day’s ramble 
will be interesting to ornithologists and other lovers of Nature 
by showing what “ feathered friends” we have still in our 
neighbourhood, and although our rapidly increasing town is 
fast encroaching on its green border lands, yet a walk of a 
few miles will take us into a pretty undulating country, sweet 
with the songs of birds, and the home of a greater variety 
than many might imagine. It must not be supposed that 
this is a catalogue of the birds of a district, but simply a list 
of those observed in a day’s ramble in the middle of May. 
The road taken from Birmingham was through Rubery and 
Cofton to He well. The various kinds of birds seen numbered 
sixty-two, and were as follows : — 
Kestrel. 
Sparrow Hawk. 
Spotted Flycatcher .. 
Mistletoe Thrush .... 
Song Thrush. 
Blackbird . 
Hedge Accentor. 
Redbreast . 
Redstart. 
Wliincliat . 
Wheatear . 
Sedge Warbler . 
Nightingale. 
Blackcap Warbler.... 
Garden Warbler. 
Whitethroat . 
Lesser Whitethroat .. 
Wood Warbler . 
Willow Warbler. 
Chiffchaff . 
Wren . 
Tree Creeper. 
Great Tit. 
Blue Tit . 
Coal Tit . 
Long-tailed Tit. 
Pied Wagtail. 
Ray’s Wagtail . 
Tree Pipit . 
Meadow Pipit. 
Skylark . 
Black-headed Bunting 
Falco tinnunculus. 
Accipiter nisus. 
Muscicapa grisola. 
Turdus viscivorus. 
Turdus musicus. 
Turdus merula. 
Accentor modularis. 
Eritliacus rubecula. 
Ruticilla phoenicurus. 
Saxicola rubetra. 
Saxicola cenanthe. 
Salicaria pliragmitis. 
Luscinia philomela. 
Sylvia atricapilla. 
Sylvia hortensis. 
Sylvia cinerea. 
Sylvia sylviella. 
Phylloneuste sibilatrix. 
Phylloneuste trochilus. 
Phylloneuste rufa. 
Troglodytes parvulus. 
Certhia familiaris. 
Parus major. 
Parus coeruleus. 
Parus ater. 
Acredula rosea. 
Motacilla Yarrelli. 
Motacilla Rayi. 
Anthus arboreus. 
Anthus pratensis. 
Alauda arvensis. 
Emberiza melanocephala. 
* Abstract of a Paper read before the Birmingham Microscopists’ and 
Naturalists’ Union. May 19th, 1884. 
