WINTER BIRDS OF PASSAGE. 



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they retire ; but the following soft-billed birds, 

 though insect eaters, stay with us the year round : 



Red-breast, 

 Wren, 



RAII NOMINA. 



Rubecula. 



Passer troglodytes. 



Hedge-sparrow, Curruca. 



White-wagtail, 

 Yellow-wagtail, 

 Grey-wagtail, 



Wheatear, 



Motacilla alba. 

 Motacilla flava. 

 Motacilla cinerea. 



(Enanthe. 



' These frequent houses; 

 and haunt out-build- 

 ings in the winter : 

 eat spiders. 



Haunt sinks, for 

 crumbs, and 'other 

 sweepings. 



These frequent shal- 

 low rivulets, near the 

 spring heads, where 

 they never freeze: eat 

 the aureliae of Phry- 

 ganea. The smallest 

 birds that walk. 



Some of these are to be 

 seen with us the win- 

 ter through. 



This is the smallest 

 British bird: haunts 

 the tops of tall trees ; 

 stays the winter 

 through . 



A List of the Winter Birds of Passage round this 

 neighbourhood, ranged somewhat in the order in which 

 they appear. 



RAII NOMINA. 



] . Ringousel, Merula torquata. 



2. Redwing, 



3. Fieldfare, 



Turdus iliacus. 

 Turdus pilaris. 



This is a new migra- 

 tion, which I have 

 lately discovered 

 about Michaelmas 

 week, and again 

 about the fourteenth 

 of March. 



About old Michaelmas 

 Though a percher by 

 day, roosts on the 

 ground. 



