Our Summer Migrants An Account of the Migratory Birds Which Pass the Summer in the British Islands.

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Although the majority of the _Sylviidæ_ are fruit-eaters, the species now under consideration are almost entirely insectivorous;[7] they are also more strictly arboreal in their...

In no part of the country are these four species more plentiful than in the south-eastern counties of England; and the neighbourhood of the metropolis seems to have some special...

The nest of the Whitethroat is generally placed near the ground, amongst nettles or other rank herbage, and is constructed of dry grass-stems and horsehair. The eggs, usually fi...

Mr. Frederick Bond some time since called my attention to the occurrence of the rarer _S. palustris_ in Norfolk, and kindly lent me a series of skins of both species procured in...

But although the greater number of recorded British specimens have been obtained in the South of England, a few have been noticed from time to time in Scotland, and Dr. Saxby ha...

It is annually observed in Malta in spring and autumn, but never found there during the winter months (Wright, “Ibis,” 1864, p. 61). Lieut. Sperling, however, believes that it i...

First, then, as regards food. Dr. Jenner found that Swallows on their arrival in this country, and for some time afterwards, feed principally on gnats; but that their favourite...

As winter disappears it gradually moves northward, and a month before it arrives in England it is found in some numbers along the entire coast-line of the Mediterranean. Mr. Osb...

I have still to name four species which are not included in any of the above lists, _viz._, the Spotted Flycatcher, Yellow Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, and Wheatear. They were noticed...

In its mode of nidification, the Wryneck resembles the Woodpeckers, selecting a hole in a tree wherein to deposit its eggs, which are six or seven in number, pure white, and lai...

The nest which I am now enabled to record was placed in a fork of a very thin bough of an elm tree, at a considerable height from the ground, and almost at the extremity of the...

Before the end of September it has commenced to migrate southwards on its way to its winter quarters in Algeria, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Palestine. It is said to be rare in Portu...

In the case of the Sedge Warbler, we again remark observations on the wind at the presumed dates of arrival in all respects confirmatory of what has been already stated. Four go...

W Wagtail, Grey, 112. “ Grey-headed, 121. “ Pied, 106. “ Ray’s or Yellow, 117, 319. “ White, 110. Warbler, Aquatic, 91. “ Blackcap, 44. “ Garden, 59, 326. “ Grasshopper, 86, 322...