MIGRANT BIRDS.
Already —I speak of the home counties (that pleasant English term)—some of the winter migrants have arrived. - Numbers of green plover have come south, some pigeon, and I hear from further north that fieldfare are before their time. The summer visitors seem to me to be normal in their departure. With me house martins were: in large flocks during the second and third week of September ; and they left in a. body on September 27th. Of this type of bird. only a few swallows remain. A few turtle doves were left at the-end of September to delight the eye with their wonderful flight ; and—on another subject—I never heard wood pigeons sing their " little-bit-of- bread-and-no-cheese " so persistently at this late date. Indeed, the rain wetted the whistle of a good number of birds, including chill-chaffs on their southerly passage.
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