48 WATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. 
the thickest part of a bush; and will sing at a yard distance, pro- 
vided it be concealed. I was obliged to get a person to go on the 
other side of the hedge where it haunted, and then it would run, 
creeping like a mouse, before us for an hundred yards together, 
through the bottom of the thorns; yet it would not come into fair 
sight ; but in a morning early, and when undisturbed, it sings on 
the top of a twig, gaping and shivering with its wings. Mr. Ray 
himself had no knowledge of this bird, but received his account 
from Mr. Johnson, who apparently confounds it with the zegzlz nox 
cristatt, from which it is very distinct. See Ray’s “ Philos. 
Letters;”’ p. 108:* 
A LIST OF THE SUMMER BIRDS OF PASSAGE DISCOVERED IN THIS 
NEIGHBOURHOOD, RANGED SOMEWHAT IN THE ORDER IN 
WHICH THEY APPEAR. 
LINNAI NOMINA, 
Smallest willow-wren 
Wryneck, 
House-swallow, 
Martin, 
Sand-martin, 
Cuckoo, 
Nightingale, 
Blackcap, 
Whitethroat, 
Middle willow-wren, 
Swift, 
Stone-curlew ? 
Turtle-dove ? 
Grasshopper-lark, 
Landrail, 
Largest willow-wren, 
Redstart, 
Motacilla trochilus. 
Fynx torquilla. 
Hiruido rustica. 
Hirundo urbica. 
Hirundo riparia. 
Cuculus canorus. 
Motacilla luscinia. 
Motacilla atricapilla. 
Motacilla sylvia. 
Motacilla trochilus. 
ffirundo apus. 
Charadrius edicnemus ? 
Turtur aldrovandi ? 
Alauda trivialis. 
Rallus crex. 
Motacilla trochilus. 
Motacilla phenicurus. 
Goat-sucker, or fern-owl, Caprimulgus europeus. 
Fly-catcher, Muscicapa grisola. 
The fly-catcher (s¢oparo/a) has not yet appeared ; it usually breeds 
in my vine. The redstart begins to sing, its note is short and im- 
* This passage in Ray’s correspondence (Ray Society, p. 96), to which the above alludes, 
appears to occur in one of Mr. Johnson’s letters to Ray, March 1672, and refers to the 
grasshopper-warbler, Sadicaria docustella, and which is White’s “ grasshopper-lark ;” it is 
as follows: ‘‘I have sent you the little yellow-bird you called vegzlaus non cristatus, what 
bird it is I know not ; but we have great store of them (Brignall, Greta Bridge), each 
morning about sunrise, and many times a-day ; besides she mounts to the highest branch 
in the bush, and there, with bill erect, and wing hovering, she sends forth a sibilous noise 
like that of the grasshopper, but much shriller.”—(See also Letter XXIV.) 
