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5. Sand-martin, Hirundo riparia. 



6. Blackcap, Atricapilla. 



7. Nightingale, Luscinia. 



8. Cuckoo, Cuculus. 



9. Middle willow-wren, Regulus non cristatus. 



wren, 



20. Fly-catcher, 



Stoparola. 



USUALLY APPEARS ABOUT 



April 13. 



Ditto : a sweet wild note. 



Beginning of April. 



Middle of April. 

 ( Ditto : a sweet plaintive 

 \ note. 



( Ditto : mean note ; sings 

 \ on till September. 

 ( Ditto : a more agreeable 

 ( song. 



( End of March : loud, 

 \ nocturnal whistle. 



( Middle April: a small 

 -< sibilous note, till the 

 ( end of July. 



About April 27th. 

 ( A sweet polyglot, but 

 < hurrying; it has the 

 ( notes of many birds. 

 ( A loud, harsh note, crex, 

 ( crex. 



C Cantat voce striduld lo- 

 custa ; end of April, 

 on the tops of high 

 I beeches. 

 ( Beginning of May: chat- 

 4 ters by night with a 

 ( singular noise. 

 |" May 1 2th : a very mute 

 I bird ; this is the latest 

 I summer bird of pas- 

 l sage. 





This assemblage of curious and amusing birds belongs to ten 

 several genera of the Linnaean system ; and are all of the 

 ordo of passeres save the Jynx and Cuculus, which are piece, 

 and the Charadrius (CEdicnemtis) and Rallus (Ortygometra), 

 which are grallce. 



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

 lowing Linnaean genera : 



1, Jynx. 13. Columba. 



2, 6, 7, 9, 10, n, 1 6, 1 8, Motacilla. 17. Rallus. 



3? 4? 5> I S> Hirundo. 19. Caprimulgus. 



