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also at Ashton, near Chudleigh. Is this not very unusual? I never met 
with it, although I resided at Torquay twenty years.” Mr. T. Mason 
Coues, of Northam, N. Devon, writing to the ‘Exeter Gazette’ of May 
16th, 1893, states that the Rector of Parracombe had heard the 
Nightingale from the 11th to 15th May inclusive, from about 9.15 each 
evening. Mr. Chanter, the Rector, had no doubt as to the identity of the 
songster, and says another had been heard at Ilfracombe. Mr. Coues 
thinks that he has heard the Nightingale in his garden at Northam in 
previous years. A pair frequented a little glen between Beer and Seaton 
in May 1894 (‘ Exeter Gazette,’ May 30th, 1894). The Nightingale has 
also occurred at Rousdon (H. Swaysland). This year (1895) there have 
been numerous notices of the supposed occurrences of Nightingales in 
various parts of Devonshire in the local newspapers. 
At page 16, line 19, Mr. E. A. 8. Elliot informs us 1883 should be 
1888, and that two Nightingales, not one, were shot at Kingsbridge, only 
one of them was so mutilated that it could not be preserved. ‘I have 
been since told by the boy who shot the birds that the hedge was full of 
birds on that particular morning (April 24th, 1888); there must have 
been at least twenty Nightingales present, besides numbers of Redstarts 
and other birds he did not know.” 
Dartford Warbler (p. 20). 
Since we recorded ‘“ we fear it must be extinct in Devonshire,” Mr. E. 
A. 8. Elliot has noted it the last two autumns (1893-4) in the neigh- 
bourhood of Kingsbridge, probably on migration. He writes to us :— 
“The point that this Warbler might be found in turnips (see p. 434) has 
caused me to look out for it; during September it is frequently seen 
rising at our feet, and after a quick, short, and erratic flight, pitching 
again and running under the leaves, to rise, perhaps, twenty yards from 
where it was noticed to drop in, It is difficult to secure a specimen on 
this account, and also because a Partridge may at any moment get up, 
and your friends wouldn’t bless you for shooting a little atom like that, 
with the chance of missing a bird, or scaring a covey.” This tallies with 
Montagu’s account, written nearly a hundred years ago. 
Wood-Warbler (p. 24). 
Has been observed in the parish of Rousdon (H. Swaysland). The late 
Prebendary Tilney-Bassett, Vicar of Dulverton, was not only a scholar 
and poet, but also an excellent naturalist. He possessed the singular gift 
(perhaps it was sympathy) of being able to interpreti bird-language. 
When we were walking with him through some of the woods near 
Dulverton he told us that from the notes of the bird he knew at once how 
far the nest was advanced, if it was yet ready for eggs, or only half 
finished ; if the full complement of eggs had been laid ; if they were hard- 
