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were not nesting up to May 20 th, by which date the 
Black Terns had greatly increased in numbers. 
Other species that require passing notice were : 
Sedge-Warbler, Beed-Bunting, Yellow and White Wag¬ 
tails—all abundant and very pretty objects as they 
balanced on the point of a broken cane in mid-water ; in 
1889, I thought I also recognized (in June) the Great 
Sedge-Warbler.* There were also Grey Partridge, 
Corncrake, and Golden Plovers (breeding), Common or 
-Arctic Terns, Black-headed Gulls, and, on May 18th, a 
pair of Little Gulls. 
Having occasionally observed rising fish in the main 
river, and understanding from our boatman that salmon 
of some kind ran up it, we put our rods together, 
but failed to tempt anything beyond a few small roach. 
That was in May ; but in June I had rather better sport 
with the coarse fish—roach, dace, and perch, besides 
others unknown to me. The boatman had not before 
seen fly-fishing, and laughed consumedly when a couple 
of red-finned roach were splashing and fighting on 
the thin gut; nothing would satisfy him but to attempt 
to do likewise, with the inevitable consequence of a 
ravelled cast. But the laugh was all on his side when 
from a funnel-net he had set in a backwater he ex¬ 
tracted a four-pound carp. Shoals of these fish—some 
apparently of 8 or 10 lbs. weight—we could see moving 
about in the depths beneath our boat; but the thick 
* A Danish gentleman remarked to me on the abundance of 
nightingales in his garden. I ventured to doubt their being nightin¬ 
gales, and find I was practically wrong. Northern Germany is the 
utmost limit of our nightingale (Z>. luscinia ); but in Scandinavia 
and Denmark that species is replaced by the larger northern form, 
D. 'philomela. 
