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NATURAL HISTORY 



12. Stone-curlew, 



13. Turtle-dove, 



, , Alauda minima lo- 



14. Grasshopper-lark, cmt(BVOCe: 



RAII NOMINA. 



Oedicnemm : 

 Turtur : 



USUALLY APPEARS ABOUT 



f End of March : loud noc- 

 \ turnal whistle. 



15. Swift, 



Hirundo apus : 



, Passer arundinaceus 



16. Less reed-sparrow, minor . 



17. Land-rail, 



18. Largest willow- 



19. Goat-sucker, or 



fern-owl, 



20. Fly-catcher, 



Ortygometra : 

 Regulus non cristatus: 



Stoparola : 



{Middle of April: a small si- 

 bilous note, till the end 

 of July. 



About April 27. 

 A sweet polyglot, but hur- 

 rying : it has the notes 

 o"f many birds. 

 A loud harsh note,crex,crex. 



iCantat voce stridula locus- 

 tse ; 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 sum- 

 ( rner bird of passage. 



This assemblage of curious and amusing birds belongs to 

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

 or do of passer es, save the jynx and cuculus, which are piece , 

 and the cJiaradrius (oedicnemus) and rallus (ortygometra), 

 which are grallce. 



These birds, as they stand numerically, belong to the fol- 

 lowing Linnoean genera : 



lj Jynx : 



2, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 16, 18. Motacilla: 

 3,4,5,15. Hirundo: 



8. Cuculus : 



12. Charadrius : 



13. Columba: 

 17. Rallus: 



19. Caprimulgus 



14. Alauda: 



20. Mmcicapa. 



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



Redbreast, 

 Wren, 



BAII NOMINA. 



Rubecula : 

 Passer troglodytes : 



( These frequent houses ; and 

 j haunt outbuildings in the 

 ( winter ; eat spiders. 



