BIRDS OF PASSAGE. 



A List of the Summer Birds of Passage discovered in this neighbourhood, ranged some 

 ivhat in the order in which they appear. 



Linnsei Nomina. 



Motacilla trochilus [sylvia loquax] . 



Jynx torquilla [tor quilla vulgar is']. 



Hirundo rustica [Jiirundo garrula]. 



Hirundo urbica. 



Hirundo riparia. 



Cuculus canorus. 



Motacilla hiscinia [philomela luscinia'] 

 Motacilla atricapilla [ficedula atricapilla'] 

 Motacilla sylvia [ficedula cinerea']. 

 Motacilla trochilus [sylvia melodia~\. 



Hirundo apus [cypselus murarius]. 

 Charadrius cedicnemus ? [cedicncmus Eu- 



rop<Kus~\. 

 Turtur aldrovandi ? [columba-turtur Eu- 



ropcea], 

 Alauda trivialis [salicaria-locustella dume- 



ticola']. 



Pallus crex [_crex pratensis]. 

 Motacilla trochilus [sylvia sibilans], 

 Motacilla phcenicurus [erythaca-plmnicura 



albifrons], 

 Caprimulgus Europceus [ phalcenivora Eu- 



rop&a'] . 

 Muscicapa grisloa. 



Smallest willow-wren [chiffchaff petty- 

 chaps], 



Wryneck, 



House swallow [chimney-swallow], 



Martin [eave-svvallow], 



Sand martin [bank-swallow], 



Cuckoo, 



Nightingale, 



Blackcap [blackcap-fauvet], 



Whitethroat [vvhitethroat-fauvet], 



Middle willow -wren [warbling - petty- 

 chaps], 



Swift, 



Stone curlew [European thicknee]. 



Turtle dove, 



Grasshopper lark [brake locustelle]. 



Landrail [meadow-crake], 



Largest willow-wren [sibilous pettychaps], 



Redstart, 



Goatsucker, or fern-owl [motheater], 

 Flycatcher, 



My countrymen talk much of a bird that makes a clatter with 

 its bill against a dead bough, or some old pales, calling it a jar- 

 bird. I procured one to be shot in the very fact ; it proved to 

 be the sitta europcea (the nuthatch).* Mr. Ray says that the less 



consume is inconsiderable. The tits also are frugivorous birds, more particularly the blue spedes ; 

 but the mutflin (mecistura rosea), or long-tailed tit of most writers, now with propriety removed 

 from the genus pnw, is at all seasons exclusively insectivorous. Lastly, the'common wren must 

 be included in the list of occasional depredators in the garden, as it occasionally, to a very small 

 extent, robs the currant-bushes, though few would suspect this from the make of its bill. All 

 the pettychaps genus subsist entirely on small insects, in the different stages of their growth, 

 particularly leaf insects, leaf rolling caterpillars, and spiders; and they destroy vast numbers 

 of aphides, often capturing the winged ones flying, in the manner of a flycatcher, a habit which 

 is most observable in the S. sibilans- ED. 



* This is a very interesting bird, common throughout the year in all the sylvan districts of 

 Britain, frequenting old trees, where it may be easily recognized by its lively manners, and its 

 peculiar, often-repeated, monotonous, but cheerful note (resembling the sound twit, or chviite, 

 emitted, at intervals, two or three times continuously, or many times without ceasing, and rather 

 loudly for the size of the utterer). Or it may be known by its creeping about, by successive jerks, 

 along or around their holes and larger branches, often with the back downwards, and occasionally 

 in a descending direction, being the only British bird that is capable of doing this, the woed- 

 pecker tribes invariably proceeding upwards, and the tree-creeper being only able to descend 



