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19. Goatsucker, or 



fern-owl, 



20. Fly-catcher, 



Caprimulgus. (Beginning of May: chatters by 



| night with a singular noise. 

 fMay 12: a very mute bird; this 



Stoparola. -j is the latest summer bird of 



[ passage. 



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 pic<e, and the 

 Charadrius (QLdicnemus] and Rallus (Ortygometra^ which are 

 grail*. 



These birds, as they stand numerically, belong to the following 

 Linnasan genera : 



1, J^x. 13. Columba. 



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

 3,4, 5, 15, Hirundo. 19. Caprimul { 



Cuculus. w ' J " '* 

 Charadrius. 



i; 



12, 



19. Caprimulgus. 

 14. Alauda. 



20. Muscle -apa. 



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 : 



Red-breast, 

 Wren, 



Hedge-sparrow, 



White-wagtail, 

 Yellow-wagtail, 

 Grey-wagtail, 



Wheat-ear, 



Whin-chat, 

 Stone-chatter, 



RAII NOMINA. 



Rubecula. 



Passer troglodytes. 



Cur rue a. 



Motacilla alba. 

 Motacilla flava. 

 Motacilla cinerea. 



(Enanthe. 



(Enanthe secunda. 

 (Lnanthe tertia. 



Golden-crowned wren, Regulus cristatus. 



(These frequent houses: and haunt 

 out-buildings in the winter : eat 

 spiders. 



| Haunt sinks for crumbs and other 

 j sweepings. 



These frequent shallow rivulets 

 near the spring heads, where they 

 never freeze : eat the aureliae of 

 Phryganea. The smallest birds 

 that walk. 



Some of these are to be seen with 

 us the winter through. 



This is the smallest British bird: 

 haunts the tops of tall trees: 

 stays the winter through. 



