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Raii Nomina. 
4, Martin Hiirundo rustica . 
5. Sand-martin Hirundo riparia . 
6. Blackcap Atricapilla. , 
7. Nightingale Luscinia 
8. Cuckoo . Cuculus 
9 
low-wren latus . 
10. Whitethroat 
11. Redstart . 
12. Stonecurlew Qdicnemus . 
13. Turtle-dove 
14. Sutera 
. Middle wil- ; Regulus non cris- 
Ficedule affinis 
Ruticilla . . 
Turtur. 
lark cust@ voce 
15. Swift. . Hirundo apus . 
16. Less reed- 
Sparrow . ceus minor 
Alauda minima lo- 
NATURAL HISTORY 
Usually appears about 
April 13. 
Ditto. 
Do.: a sweet, wild note. 
Beginning of ‘April. 
Middle of April. 
Ditto: a sweet, plaintive 
note. 
Do. : mean note: sings on 
till September. 
Do. : more agreeable song. 
End of March : loud noc- 
turnal whistle. 
Middle of April: a small 
sibtcte. Hott till the 
end of July 
About April sath. 
rying: it has the notes 
of many birds. 
A loud, ate note, crex, 
crex. 
Cantat voce stridula locus- 
te: end of April, on the 
tops of high beeches, 
Beginning of May: chat- 
ters by night with a sin- 
gular noise. 
(May 12: a very mute 
d bird: this is the largest 
* *‘\ summer bird of pas- 
\ sage. 
* A man brought me a landrail or daker-hen, a bird so rare 
in this district that we seldom see more than one or two in a 
season, and those only in the autumn. This is deemed a bird 
of passage by all the writers, yet, from its formation, seems to 
be poorly qualified for migration; for its wings are short, and 
placed so forward and out of the centre of gravity that it flies in 
a very heavy and embarrassed manner, with its legs hanging 
down ; and hardly to be sprung a second time, as It runs very 
fast, and seems todepend more on the swiftness of its feet than 
on its flying. 
Landrails used to abound formerly, 1 remember, in the low, 
wet beanfields of Christian Malford, in North Wilts, and in the 
meadows near Paradise Gardens at Oxford, where I have often 
heard them cry crez, crex.— WHITE, Observations on Birds. 
Regulus non cris- 
tatus . 
18. Largest wil- 
low-wren 
19. Goat-sucker 
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17. Landrail* 4 Ortygometra 
i 
or fern-owl 3 
Pasoe Wiscen A sweet polyglot, but hur- 
Caprimulgus . a 
20."Fly-catcher. Stoparola . 
