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SUMMER BIRDS OJ' PASSAGE. 



RAII NOMINA. 



17. Landrail, Ortygometra. 



18. Largest willow- J Regulus non cris- 



wren, \ tcUvs. 



20. Fiy-catcher, 



Stoparola. 



USUAL. y APPEARS ABOUT 



A loud harsh note, crex, 



crex. 

 Cantat voce striduld lo- 



cnstce : end of April, on 



the tops of high beeches. 

 Beginning of May : chatters 



by night with a singular 



noise. 

 May 12. A very mute bird : 



this is the latest summer 



bird of passage. 



This assemblage of curious and amusing birds belongs to 

 ten several genera of the Liunsean system ; and are all of 

 the ordo of passeres, save the jpia^ and cicculus, which are 

 pic(B, and the cliaradrius (oedicnemus) and rallus (prtygO' 

 tnetrd), which are grallce. 



These birds, as they stand numerically, belong to the 

 following Linnaean genera : — 



Most soft-billed birds live on in,sects, and not on gram 

 and seeds, and therefore at the end of summer they retire ; 

 but the following soft-billed birds, though insect eaters, stay 

 with us the year round : — 



Red-breast, 

 Wren, 



Hedge-sparrow 



White-wagtail, 

 Yellow-wagtail, 

 Grey-wagtail, 



RAII NOMINA. 



Rubecula. 



Passer troglodytes. 



Curruca. 



Motacilla alba. 

 Motacilla flava. 

 Motacilla cinerea. 



Wheatear, 



(Enanthe. 



{These frequent houses ; and 

 haunt out-buildings in the 

 winter : tat spiders. 

 r Haunt sinks, for crumbs 

 1^ and other sweepings. 

 ' These frequent shallow ri 

 vulets, near the spring 

 heads, where tliey never 

 freeze : eat the aureliae 

 of Phryganea. The small- 

 est birds that walk. 

 f Some of these are to be 

 < seen with us the winter 

 y through. 



