THE LITTLE CRAKE (_Crex pusilla_), v., 244.
THE GOLDEN ORIOLE (_Oriolus galbula_), iii., 133.
THE ORTOLAN (_Emberiza hortulana_), ii., 101.
THE CROSSBILL (_Loxia curvirostra_), ii., 116.
About the year 1840, in the month of August, a large flock of these birds, old and young in company, visited Hough-end Clough for a few hours. Mr. Blackwall gives as its Manchester period, August 5th to November 19th.
THE CHATTERER (_Ampelis garrulus_), i., 59.
THE RED-BACKED SHRIKE (_Lanius collurio_), i., 34.
THE GREAT SHRIKE (_Lanius excubitor_), i., 33.
In Mr. Blackwall's list, and was seen at Cheadle about 1850. (On the Lancashire localities of the three species of Lanius, see the _Manchester Guardian_ for March 11th, 1882.)
In Mr. Blackwall's list. (On the Lancashire localities, see _Manchester Guardian_, January 14th, 1882.)
THE DUSKY GREBE (_Colymbus obscurus_), v., 296.
BEWICK'S SWAN (_Cygnus Bewickii_), v., 262.
A flock of twenty-nine at Crumpsall on December 10th, 1829, and another of seventy-three at the same place, February 28th, 1830.
THE LITTLE BITTERN (_Ardea minuta_), iv., 205.
A very shy and sulky little bird, sitting all of a heap, and looking like a bit of brown stump.
THE COMMON BITTERN (_Botaurus stellaris_), iv., 204.
THE GREAT OR SOLITARY SNIPE (_Scolopax major_), iv., 226.
THE NIGHTINGALE (_Sylvia Luscinia_), iii., 147.
The visit of the nightingales to our neighbourhood will long be remembered by those who heard their song.
It took place in 1863. The first came to Wilmslow early in May, establishing itself in the little grove near the end of Bollin Hall Park, on the Manchester side of the railway viaduct. For several weeks it sang nightly, and the crowds of people who were attracted by the fame of the bird from distances of many miles, at last became quite a trouble to that usually quiet neighbourhood. The second took up its lodging in a grove close to the Strines Printworks, where, says Mr. Joel Wainwright,[31] no greater sensation was ever caused by a little thing. It began at ten every night, and continued almost uninterruptedly until three a.m. A third is said to have visited a plantation adjacent to the railway station at Sale, but over this one there may possibly have been an error.