BIRDS OF PASSAGE. 



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KAII NOMINA. 



5. Sand-martin, Hirundo riparia : 



6. Black cap, Atricapilla : 

 T. Nightingale, Luscinia : 



. 8. Cuckoo, Cuculus : 



9. Middle willow-wren, Regulus non cristatus : 



10. White-throat, 



11. Red-start, 



12. Stone-curlew, 



13. Turtle-dove, 



U. Grasshopper-la*. 

 15. Swift, 



Ficedula affinis : 

 Ruticilla : 



(Edicnemus: 

 Turtur. 



USUALLY APPEARS ABOUT 



April 13. 



Ditto : a sweet wild note. 



Beginning of April. 



Middle of April. 



Ditto : a sweet plaintive note. 



{ *$?* ' SingS ' 



Hirundo apus: About April 27. 



P^r arundinaceus mi- { 



nnr: \ birds. 



Ortyigvmetra : 



16. Less reed-sparrow, 



17. Land-rail, 



18. Largest willow- wren, Regulus non cristatus : 



19. Goatsucker, or fern- > rnnvim , llmi 



owl, ^Capnmulgus: 



A loud harsh note, crex, crex. 

 f Cantat voce stridula locustae ; 

 \ end of April, on the tops of 

 t high beeches. 

 S Beginning of May ; chatters by 

 night with a singular noise. 



5 May 12. A very mute bird: 

 This is the latest summer 

 bird of passage. 



some of all of which will certainty make their appearance if full moon happen towards the clos 

 of the month. As the nights become light in April, will arrive, besides the great majority of the 

 species already enumerated, the earlier individuals of the 



Chimney-swallow, 



Meadow-crake, 



Common field-wagtail, 



Plaintive stoparel (pied flycatcher, auct.), 



White-fronted redstart, 



Locustelle, 



Cuckoo, 

 and, as the moon approaches to last quarter, the 



Migrant furze-chat, 



Nightingale, 



Eave-swaTlow, 



Common sandpiper, 



Fen-reedling, 



Whitethroat-fauvet, 



Sedge-reedling, 

 and sometimes the 



White-breasted fauvet, 

 then, after the lapse of a few days, will arrive, early i 



Hirundo garrula, 

 Crex pratensis, 

 Molacilla-budytes flavi$sima, 

 Stoparola luctuosa, 

 Phaenicura albifrons 

 Locustella dmmeticola, 

 Cuculus c 



Saxicola-rubetrd migratoriai 

 Philomela lustinia, 

 Hirundo urbica, 

 Totanus hypoleiicut, 

 Salicaria arundinacectt 

 Ficedula cinerea, 

 Sulicaria phragmitist 



Ficedula garrula, 

 n May, the 



Garden-fauvet, 



Grove, or shaking pettychaps, 



Flusher shrike, 



Gray flycatcher, 



Turtle-dove, 



Common swift, 

 and still later, many not till the middle of June, the 



European motheater, Pholaniivora Europea, 



which is always the last of the summer birds of passage. Of course exceptions to this order will 

 sometimes occur ; but these are as near the average periods as can be given. 1 have seen the nest 

 of the white-breasted fauvet, with four eggs in it, so early as on the twenty-third of April. ED. 



Ficedula hortensis, 

 Sylvia sibilans, 

 Lanius colluris, 

 Muscicapa grisolai 

 Columba-turtur Europeea, 

 Cypsdus murarius t 



