SUMMER BIRDS OF PASSAGE. 



10. White-throat, 



11. Redstart, 



12. Stone curlew, 



13. Turtle-dove, 



Ficedula affinis. 

 Ruticilla. 



( Do. mean note : sings 

 \ on till September. 

 f Ditto : more agreeable 

 \ song. 



( End of March : loud 

 \ nocturnal whistle. 



14. Grasshopper- 



lark, 



15. Swift, 



( Alauda minima^ 

 \ locustce voce. 



Hirundo apus. 



16. Less reed-spar- (Passer arundina- 

 row, "^ ceus minor. 



(Edicnemus. 



Turtur. 



( Middle of April: a 

 < small sibilous note, 

 (^ till the end of July. 

 About April 27- 



{A sweet polyglot, but 

 hurrying: it has the 

 notes of many birds. 

 {A loud, harsh note, 

 crex, crex. 



18. Largest-willow- (Regulm non cris- ( C tat f mce , st * ttl ? 



t ** < o tops of hi^l, 



v. beeches. 

 Beginning of May : 

 chatters by night 

 with a singular noise. 

 May 12. A very mute 

 bird: this is the lat- 

 est summer bird of 

 ( passage. 



This assemblage of curious and amusing birds be- 

 longs to ten several genera of the Linnsean system ; 

 and are all of the or do of passer es, save \hejynx and 

 cuculus, which are piece, and the charadrius (cedicne- 

 mus) and rallus (ortygometrd), which are gralla. 



These birds, as they stand numerically, belong to 

 the following Linnsean genera : 



17. Landrail, 



19. Goat-sucker, or 

 fern-owl, 



Ortygometra. 



> Caprimulgus. 



20. Fly- catcher, Stoparola. 



1, 



2, 6, 7,9, 10, 11, 16, 18, 



3, 4, 5, 15, 

 8, 



12. 



Jynx. 



Motacilla. 



Hirundo. 



Cuculus. 



Charadrius. 



13, Columba. 

 17, Rallus. 



19, Caprimulgus. 



14, Alauda. 



20. Muscicapa. 



Most soft-billed birds live on insects, and not on 

 grain and seeds, and therefore at the end of summer 



