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Linnaei nomina. 



Blackcap, Motacilla atricapilla : 



A\ "hitethroat, Motacilla sylvia: 



Middle willow-wren, Motacilla trochilus : 



Swift, Hirundo apux : 



Stone curlew,? Charadrius ocdicnemus f 



Turtle-dove,? Turtur aldrovandi? * 



Grasshopper-lark, Alauda trivialis : f 



Landrail, Rallus crex : 



Largest willow-wren, Motacilla trochilus : 



Redstart. Motacilla phcenicurm : 



Goatsucker, or fern-owl, Caprimulyus curopceus : 



Fly-catcher, Muscicapa grisola. 



My countrymen talk much of a bird that makes a clatter 

 with it's bill against a dead bough, or some old pales, calling 

 it a jar-bird. I procured one to be shot in the very fact ; it 

 proved to be the sitta europcea (the nuthatch \). Mr. Ray says 

 that the less spotted woodpecker does the same. This noise 

 may be heard a furlong or more. 



Now is the only time to ascertain the short-winged summer 

 birds ; for, when the leaf is out, there is no making any re- 

 marks on such a restless tribe ; and, when once the young 

 begin to appear, it is all confusion : there is no distinction of 

 genus, species, or sex. 



* [Columba turtur, Linn. T. B.] 



t [ " Linnaeus's Alauda trivialis is the Tree-pipit See Yarr. 4th edit, 

 i. pp. 369, 370. Linnaeus did not know the Grasshopper lark or Warbler." 

 PBOF. NEWTON.] 



| [A peculiarity in the habits of the nuthatch which I have never seen 

 mentioned in any publication was communicated to me by Mr. Clarke, of 

 Fulford, near Exeter, in the following letter, dated Oct. 11, 1867: "As 

 Mrs. Clarke and I were watching a nuthatch from the window, expecting 

 that he would crack a nut which he had and was busily searching for a 

 hole in some slating within a few feet of us in which to fix the nut (but 

 his endeavours were directed solely to those parts where the green moss 

 greiv), after five or six endeavours to lodge it, he fixed it in a cleft among 

 the moss, and gave it a few taps with his bill, j ust so as to fix it there. 

 We then distinctly saw him take two separate pieces of the green moss 

 and fix them over the nut, so as to hide it completely. He then left it, 

 retired to the edge of the slating, and flew deliberately away. I have 

 often found nuts in holes and places where they had been deposited, but 

 never understood that they had been deliberately stored." T. B.] 



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