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1 6. Less reed- 



sparrow, 



17. Land-rail, 



RAII NOMINA. 



\ Passer arundina- 

 ) ceus minor. 



Ortygometra. 



1 8. Largest wil- ? Regulus non cris- 



low-wren, 



tatus. 



19. Goatsucker, 

 or fern-ow 



USUALLY APPEARS ABOUT 



A sweet polyglot, but 

 hurrying : it has the 

 notes of many birds. 



A loud harsh note, crex, 

 crex. 



Cantat voce striduld lo- 

 custce ; end of April, on 



20. Fly-catcher, Stoparola. 



t-tJ<C^ j tllU \Jl iT^lll, Wll 



the tops of high beeches. 

 Beginning of May : chat- 

 ters by night with a 

 singular noise. 



!" May 1 2 : 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 piece, 

 and the Charadrius (CEdicnemus) and Rallus (Ortygometrd), 

 which are grallce. 



These birds, as they stand numerically, belong to the 

 following Linnaean genera : 



i, Jynx. 



Motacilla. 

 Hinmdo. 



8, Cuculus. 



12, Charadrius. 



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 : 



RAII NOMINA. 



Rubecula. 



Passer troglo- 

 dytes. 



Ciirruca. 



9, 10, ii, 16, 18, 



13. Colitmba. 

 17. Rallus. 



19. Caprimulgus. 



14. Alauda. 



20. Muscicapa. 



Red-breast, 

 Wren, 



Hedge-sparrov 



White-wagtail, 

 Yellow-wagtail, 

 Grey-wagtail, 



Motacilla alba. 

 Motacilla flava. 

 Motacilla cinerea. 



These frequent houses : 

 and haunt out-buildings 

 in the winter: eat spiders. 



Haunt sinks for crumbs 

 and other sweepings. 



These frequent shallow 

 rivulets near the spring 

 heads, where they never 

 freeze : eat the aureliae 

 oiPhryganea. The small- 

 est birds that walk. 



