jo The Natural History of Selborne 



cealed. I was obliged to get a person to go on the other side of the 

 hedge where it haunted, and then it would run, creeping like a 

 mouse, before us for a hundred yards together, through the bottom 

 of the thorns ; yet it would not come into fair sight ; but in a 

 morning, early, and when undisturbed, it sings on the top of a twig, 

 gaping and shivering with its wings. Mr. Ray himself had no 

 knowledge of this bird, but received his account from Mr. Johnson, 

 who apparently confounds it with the reguli non cristati, from which 

 it is very distinct. See Ray's "Philos. Letters," p. 108. 



A LIST OF THE SUMMER BIRDS OF PASSAGE DISCOVERED IN THIS NEIGHBOURHOOD, 



RANGED SOMEWHAT IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY APPEAR. 



Smallest willow-wren 



Wryneck, 



House-swallow, 



Martin, 



Sand-martin, 



Cuckoo, 



Nightingale, 



Blackcap, 



Whitethroat, 



Middle willow-wren, 



Swift, 



Stone-curlew (?) 



Turtle-dove (?) 



Grasshopper-lark, 



LINN^I NOMINA. 



Motacilla trochilus. 

 Jynx torquilla. 

 Hirundo rustica. 

 Hirundo urbica. 

 Hirundo riparia. 

 Cuculus canorus, 

 Motacilla luscinia. 

 Motacilla atricapilla, 

 Motacilla sy/via. 

 Motacilla trochilus, 

 Hirundo apus. 

 Charadrius cedicnemus (?) 

 Turtur aldrovandi (/*) 

 Alauda trivialis. 



