_Old England._ _New England._ *Wood-lark. Meadowlark. Song-thrush. *Wood thrush. *Jenny Wren. House wren. Willow wren. *Winter wren. *Redbreast. Bluebird. *Redstart. Redstart. Hedge-sparrow. *Song sparrow. Yellow-hammer. *Fox sparrow. *Skylark. Bobolink. Swallow. Swallow. *Blackcap. Wood wagtail. Titlark. Titlark (spring and fall). *Blackbird. Robin. Whitethroat. *Maryland yellow-throat. Goldfinch. Goldfinch. Greenfinch. *Wood sparrow. Reed-sparrow. *Vesper sparrow. Linnet. *Purple finch. *Chaffinch. Indigo-bird. *Nightingale. Water wagtail. Missel thrush. *Hermit thrush. Great titmouse. Savanna sparrow. Bullfinch. Chickadee. New England song-birds not included in the above are:-- Red-eyed vireo. White-eyed vireo. Brotherly love vireo. Solitary vireo. Yellow-throated vireo. Scarlet tanager. Baltimore oriole. Orchard oriole. Catbird. Brown thrasher. Chewink. Rose-breasted grosbeak. Purple martin. Mockingbird (occasionally). Besides these, a dozen or more species of the Mniotiltidæ, or wood-warblers, might be named, some of which, like the black-throated green warbler, the speckled Canada warbler, the hooded warbler, the mourning ground-warbler, and the yellow warbler, are fine songsters. VI IMPRESSIONS OF SOME ENGLISH BIRDS The foregoing chapter was written previous to my last visit to England, and when my knowledge of the British song-birds was mainly from report, and not from personal observation. I had heard the skylark, and briefly the robin, and snatches of a few other bird strains, while in that country in the autumn of 1871; but of the full spring and summer chorus, and the merits of the individual songsters, I knew little except through such writers as White, Broderip, and Barrington. Hence, when I found myself upon British soil once more, and the birds in the height of their May jubilee, I improved my opportunities, and had very soon traced every note home. It is not a long and difficult lesson; there is not a great variety of birds, and they do not hide in woods and remote corners. You find them nearly all wherever your walk leads you. And how they do sing! how loud and piercing their notes are! Not a little of the pleasure I felt arose from the fact that the birds sang much as I expected them to, much as they ought to have sung according to my previous views of their merits and qualities, when contrasted with our own songsters.