14 Mr. Markwicr’s Catabgue of Birds 
of March 1790, as I was walking in my land, which is about four 
miles diftant from the fea-fhore, I faw, what I thought had the 
appearance of migration in thefe birds, a {mall flock of them (lefs 
than twenty in number), having paffed fteadily by me from the fea 
towards the north. , 
No. 25.—Red-legged Crow. Corvus Graculus. 
This bird frequents the South Downs about Beachy Head an 
Eaft Bourn, where it is called the Red-billed Jack-daw. 
No. 26.—The Roller. Coracias Garrula. 
This uncommon bird was killed in our neighbourhood: I made 
a drawing from its fkin, which differed, in fome refpects, from 
Mr. Edward’s figure; whence I had reafon to think that mine was 
a young bird of the preceding year, driven acrofs the fea into this 
ifland by the ftormy weather which prevailed about that time. 
No. 27.—The Cuckoo. ~Cuculus canorus. 
The old birds of this {pecies leave us when they ceafe to fing, 
which is about the latter end of June; but the young ones are 
fometimes feen very late in the autumn,—as late as the 28th of © 
September. 
No. 34.—The Hoopoe. Upupa Epops. 
I once had this beautiful bird alive in my poffeffion ; and, at an- 
other time, one of thefe birds flew before my horfe, near Eaft 
Bourn in this county, and fuffered me to approach near enough to 
diftinguifh its colour, and even-its creft, though it carried the lat- 
ter folded up as it few. From what I could obferve in both thefe 
birds, it feems to refemble the Jay in its habits, particularly in its 
note or {creech, and in its manner of flying. 
No. 44. 
