SUMMER BIRDS OF PASSAGE. 



RAII NOMINA. 



17. Landrail, 



18. Largest 



wren, 



willow- 



Ortygometra. 



Regulus non 

 tatus. 



19. Goat-sucker, 



fern-owl, 



20. Fly-catcher, 



Stoparola. 



USUALLY APPEARS ABOUT 



I" A loud harsh note, crex, 

 1 crex. 



f Cantat voce striduld lo- 

 s custce : end of April, on 



[ the tops of high beeches. 



f" Beginning of May : chatters 

 s by night with a singular 



L noise. 



I" May 12. A very mute bird : 

 < this is the latest summer 



[_ bird of passage. 



This assemblage of curious and amusing "birds belongs to 

 ten several genera of the Linnsean system ; and are all of 

 the ordo of passeres, save the jynx and cuculus, which are 

 pica, and the cTiaradrius (cedicnemus) and rallus (prtygo- 

 metra), which are grallce. 



These birds, as they stand numerically, belong to the 

 following Linnsean genera : 



1, 



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



3, 4, 5, 15, 



8, 



12, 



Jynx. 



Motacilla. 



Hirundo. 



Cuculus. 



Charadrius. 



13, Columba. 

 17, Xattus. 



19, Caprimulgus. 



14, Alauda. 



20, Muscicapa. 



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

 and seeds, and therefore at the end of summer they retire ; 

 but the following soft-billed birds, though insect eaters, stay 

 with us the year round : 



Red-breast, 

 Wren, 



Hedge-sparrow, 



White-wagtail, 

 Yellow-wagtail, 

 Grey-wagtail, 



Wheatear, 



RAII NOMINA. 



Rubecula. 



Passer troglodytes. 



Curruca. 



Motacilla alba. 

 Motacilla flava. 

 Motacilla cinerea. 



CEnanthe. 



f These frequent houses ; and 

 < haunt out-buildings in the 

 |_ winter : tat spiders. 

 J" Haunt sinks, for crumbs 

 \ and other sweepings. 

 f These frequent shallow ri- 

 vulets, near the spring 

 I heads, where they never 

 j freeze : eat the aurelia9 

 of Phryganea. The small- 

 L est birds that walk, 

 f Some of these are to be 

 < seen with us the winter 

 through. 



