THE .REDWING IN ENGLAND,
[To TUB EDITOR Or THIS " SPECTATOR...I
walking a day or two since on the banks of the 1.433' in Surrey, I was surprised to hear a song which i did not 'n°sr- On searching for the songster, I saw in the tree from which the song was proceeding a redwing. -The buff line over its eye, and the red on its flank, were quite distinctly visible. I did not actually see the bird singing, but no other bird was to be seen in the tree. The song was a sweet, low song, something remotely like a robin's when on a damp autumnal day a robin sings, as it were, to himself. This was a fine, sunny afternoon, moist and warm. A thrush was singing in a neighbouring tree, and several robins within hearing. Is it not unusual for a redwing—as I believe it was—to be heard in
England in December P—I -am, Sir, &a., W. M. Cnoos, Devonshire Club, St. James's, S. W.
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