CHAFFINCH (_Fringilla cælebs_).—Chink is the Hampshire name. The hens do not here migrate in winter, but a whole flight of them has been seen in the autumn on the Winchester road, evidently on their way; and once, after an early severe frost, about a hundred were found dead in a haystack near Basingstoke. Thomas Chamberlayne, Esq., who had a singular attraction for birds, used to have them coming to eat grain from his pocket. It has the perfection of a nest. GOLDFINCH (_Carduelis elegans_).—This exquisite little bird is frequent on the borders of the chalk hills, where there is plenty of thistledown. HAWFINCH (_Coccothraustes vulgaris_).—Sometimes seen, but not common. LINNET (_Linota cannabina_).—Fairly frequent. GREEN LINNET (_Coccothraustes chloris_).—Greenfinch, or Beanbird as they call it in Devonshire, is a pleasant visitor, though it has a great turn for pease. WREN (_Sylvia troglodytes_).—This brisk little being Kitty Wren is to be seen everywhere. Whether Kingsley’s theory is right that the little birds roll themselves into a ball in a hole in the winter, I know not. Single ones are certainly to be seen on a bank on a frosty, sunshiny day. Have they come out to view the world and report on it? Those very odd, unused nests are often to be found hanging from the thatch within outhouses. May it be recorded here that a wren once came to peck the sprigs on Miss Keble’s gown? GREAT TITMOUSE (_Parus major_)—or Ox-eye, as he is here called, bold and bright, crying “Peter” in early spring, and beautiful with his white cheek, and the black bar down his yellow waistcoat. BLUE TIT (_Parus cæruleus_).—Bolder and prettier is the little blue-cap, a true sprite and acrobat as Wordsworth calls him. MARSH-TIT (_Parus palustris_).—Known by less bright colouring and white breast. COLE-TIT (_Parus ater_).—More grey, and very graceful. All these four will gladly come to a window in winter for a little fat hung to a string, and will put themselves into wonderful inverse positions. LONG-TAILED TIT (_Parus caudatus_).—Long-tailed Caper, as is his local name, is more shy, and will not come to be fed; but the antics of a family after they have left their domed nest are delightful to watch, as they play in the boughs of a fir-tree. HEDGE-SPARROW (_Accentur modularis_).—Quiet, mottled bird, to be seen everywhere. PIED WAGTAIL (_Motacilla lutor_).—Most of these stay with us all winter, but one March evening at least forty-three descended on the lawn at Elderfield, doubtless halting in their flight from southern lands. Most winning birds they are, with their lively hop and jerking tails. Dish-washer is their Hampshire name. GREY WAGTAIL (_Motacilla boarula_).—This pretty bird is really partly yellow. It is not very frequent here, but is sometimes found on the Itchen bank; likewise the nest in a reedy meadow. RAY’S WAGTAIL (_Motacilla Rayi_).—Ray’s Wagtail was catching flies on a window at Otterbourne House in 1890.