NATURAL HISTORY, 
occasionally remain with us throughout the year, 
3. 8. Locustetia. Brit. Zool. The Grass- 
hopper Warbler. A shy bird, skulks in hedges 
and thick bushes. We have seen it occasionally 
in the neighbourhood of Ashburton. 
A, S. Rupecoxta. (Lin.) Brit. Zool, 1. p. 372. 
Red Breast. Common, 
5. S. Poaenicurvs. (Lin.) Brit. Zool. 1. p.371. 
Red Start. This beautiful summer visitor is 
not uncommon ; it arrives in April and departs 
in September, 
6, S. Sypityarrix. Mont. Lin. Trans. 4, 
p. 35. In woods and coppices, and especially 
near brooks and rivulets overhung with brush 
wood ; it is a summer visitor, 
7. S. Mopuraris, (Lin.) Brit. Zool. 1. p., 
376. Temm. Orn. p. 249. (AccEeNTOR.) Hedge 
Sparrow. Common, 
8. S. Saticaria. (Lin.) Brit. Zool. 1. p. 381, 
Sedge Bird, Rather scarce; we have seen 
them in the Newton and Exminster marshes,—it 
sings almost incessantly, imitating by turns the 
notes of various birds, from which it has been 
called the English Mock Bird. 
9, S. ArricapiLtya, (Lin.) Temm, Orn, 1. 
p. 201. Black Cap. Common during the 
summer months, when its well-known melody 
frequently attracts the ear of the loyer of the 
wild music of nature, 
10. S. Cinerta. Temm., Orn, 1. p. 207. Fiem. 
Brit. Ani, p. 71, (Curnura Synivia.) White 
