. Vögel durch das Jahr. Es leicht zu unterscheiden. Dieses große Auge ist ein Kennzeichen seiner Nocturnalgewohnheiten, wie bei den Eulen. Wie die Spreu überwintert sie in der Regel inder spanischen Halbinsel, Marokko und anderen Medi-terranischen Ländern, aber occa-sionally bleibt in Britannien.der Landlauf und die Schwarzmütze werden auch mit hin und wieder im Winter getroffen, andit ist ziemlich bemerkenswert, dass sie nicht jetzt und dann im März wie die Stein-Curlew erscheinen. Beide überwintern inNordafrika und dem Mittelmeerbecken, aber nicht nach Großbritannien bis etwa Mitte April wenden, die schwarze Kappe ist ein wenig das Meer
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. Birds through the year . it easily distinguish-able. This large eye isa mark of its nocturnalhabits, as in the case ofthe owls. Like the chiff-chaff, it usually winters inthe Spanish Peninsula, Morocco, and other Medi-terranean lands, but occa-sionally remains in Britain.The landrail and theblackcap are also met with now and then in winter, andit is rather remarkable that they do not appear now and thenin March like the stone-curlew. Both pass the winter inNorth Africa and the Mediterranean basin, but do notreturn to Britain until about the middle of April, the black-cap being a little the earlier. The way in which thesenormally migratory species are able now and then to sustainlife through part or all of the winter in England is one ofthe most striking signs of the mildness of our climate.Swallows and martins sometimes attempt to do the same;they take up their quarters in some sunny and shelterednook of the south coast, and may be seen flying on brightdays far into the winter. But sooner or later the damp, or. STONE-CURLEW FIRST COMERS cold, or the diminution of the supply of insects overcomesthem, and there is no good evidence that these lingeringbirds have ever survived till spring. House-martins areusually the last of their family to depart, but swallows arethe earliest to arrive; and it is not a very rare experience tosee a March swallow in the southern and western counties.Small parties—usually from two to ten birds—appear hereand there in the last week ofthe month, and are usuallyseen on fine days skimmingeasily at some distance over-head, bent on making goodspeed to their summer quar-ters further inland. The flightof the migrating swallow ismuch like that of the cloudedyellow butterfly, which is alsoa migrant; it looks desultoryand unhurried, and yet coversa great distance in a very shorttime. March cuckoos are muchscarcer than March swallows, and yet undoubtedly occur. There is no event of spring, however, over which the unwary observer is so likely to b
