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THE NATURAL HISTORY 



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Wryneck, 



Smallest wil- ( 

 low-wren, ( 



Swallow, 



Martin, 



Sand-martin, 



Blackcap, 



Nightingale, 



Cuckoo, 



Middle wil- 

 low-wren, 



White-throat, 



Red-start, 



Stone-curlew, 



Turtle-dove, 



Grasshopper- 

 lark, 



Swift, 



Less reed- 

 sparrow, ( 



Land-rail, 



Largest wil- { 

 low-wren, 1 



Goat-sucker, or 

 Fern-owl, 



RAH XOMIXA. APPEARS ABOUT 



The middle of March : harsh note. 

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| March 23 : chirps till September. 



April 13. 



Ditto. 



Ditto. 



April 13, a sweet wild note. 



Beginning of April. 



Middle of April. 



! Ditto : a sweet plaintive note. 



Ditto : mean note ; sings on till 

 September. 



Ditto : more agreeable song. 

 I End of March : loud nocturnal 

 \ whistle. 



( Junx, sive tor- { 

 \ quilla: j 



Regulus non cris- \ 

 talus : \ 



Hirundo domestica: 



Hirv.ndo rustica : 



Hirundo riparia: 



Atricapilla: 



Luscinia : 



Cuculus : 



Regulus non cris- 

 tatus : 



Ficedula affinis : 

 Ruticilla : 

 Oedicnemus : 



Turtur : 



Alauda minima 



locuske voce: 

 Hirundo apus: 

 Passer arundina- 



ceus minor : 

 Ortygometra : 



Regulus non cris- 

 tatus : 



Caprimulgus : 



20. Fly-catcher, Stoparola: 



Middle of April : a small sibilous 



note, till the end of July. 

 April 27. 

 A sweet polyglot, but hurrying : 



it has the notes of many birds. 

 A loud harsh note, " crex, crex." 

 " Cantat voce stridula locustas ;" 



end of April ; on the tops of 



high beeches. 

 Beginning of May : chatters by 



night with a singular noise. 

 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 Linntean system ; and are all of the ordo of 

 passeres, save the jynx and cuculus, which are piece, and the cha- 

 /adriiis (oedicnemus) and rallus (ortygometra) which are grallcc. 



These birds, as they stand numerically, belong to the following 

 Linnaean genera : 



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

 seeds; and therefore at the end of summer they retire : but the 



