GREEN WOODPECKER (_Picus viridis_).—The laugh and the tap may be heard all through the Spring days. In 1890 _Picus major_, a small, black, and spotted French Magpie, as Devonians call it, was found, but we have no other right to claim it. WRYNECK (_Yunx torquilla_), or Cuckoo’s mate, squeaks all round the woods with his head on one side just as the cuckoo comes. NUTHATCH (_Sitta europæa_).—This pretty creature will come and be fed on nuts at windows in the winter. These nuts he thrusts into crevices of bark to hold them fast while he hammers the shell. The remains may often be found. For many years a pair built in a hole half-way down an old apple-tree covered with ivy at Otterbourne House, and the exertions of the magpie with clipped wing to swing himself on a trail of ivy into the hole were comical, as well as his wrath when he fell off, as he uniformly did. TREE-CREEPER (_Certhia familiaris_), winds round and round the trees like a little mouse. HOOPOE (_Upupa vulgaris_).—Once in a frost caught alive by a shepherd on the downs, but it soon died. CUCKOO (_Cuculus canorus_).—They cuckoo till “in June he altereth his tune.” Probably the stammer is the effort of the young ones to sing. One grew up in a wagtail’s nest in the flints that were built into the wall of Otterbourne Churchyard. Another, carried to the other side of the road and caged, was still fed by its foster-parents till it was ready to fly. WOOD-PIGEON (_Columba palumbus_)— Take two cows, Taffy, Taffy, take two-o-o. Plenty of this immoral exhortation may be heard in the trees. One young pigeon taken from the nest proved incorrigibly wild and ready to flutter to death whenever any one came near it. TURTLE-DOVE (_Columba turtur_).—This pretty delicate creature with speckled neck builds in bushes lower than the wood-pigeon, and the mournful note resounds in the trees. PHEASANT (_Phasianus colchicus_).—Not a real native, but cultivated to any extent. A cock pheasant with the evening sun gilding his back is a rare picture of beauty. PARTRIDGE (_Tetrao perdix_).—Numerous. HERON (_Ardea cinerea_).—Sometimes flies far overhead, the long legs projecting behind. SANDPIPER (_Totanus hypoleucus_).—Seen walking over a mass of weeds in the Itchen canal. SNIPE (_Scolopax gallinago_).—Brought in by sportsmen from the water meadows. WOODCOCK (_Scolopax rusticola_).—Not common, but sometimes shot. JACK-SNIPE (_Scolopax gallinula_).—Not common, but sometimes shot. LAND-RAIL (_Crex pratensis_).—Corn-Crake. May be heard “craking” in the long grass in early morning before the hay is cut. WATER-RAIL (_Rallus aquaticus_).—In a meadow at Otterbourne, 22nd January 1855. LITTLE GREBE (_Podiceps minor_).—Dabchick, as it is commonly called, swims in the Itchen and in Fisher’s Pond (on Colden Common), dipping down suddenly without a trace of the least alarm.