OF SELBORNE. 1)1 



A List of the Summer Birds of Passage discovered in this Neighbourhood, 

 ranged somewhat in the Order in which they appear: 



Nomina. 



Smallest willow wren, Motacilla Trochilus* [Sylvia loquax, HERB.] : 

 Wryneck, Yunx Torquilla: 



House swallow, Hirundo rustica: 



Martin, Hirundo urbica : 



Sand martin, Hirundo riparia: 



Cuckoo, Cuculus canorus : 



Nightingale, Motacilla Luscinia [Philomela Luscinia,S WAINS.] : 



Blackcap, Motacilla Atricapilla [Curruca Atricapilla, 



BECHST.] : 



Whitethroat, Motacilla Sylvia [Curruca cinerea, BECHST.] : 



Middle willow wren, Motacilla Trochilus 4 [Sylvia Trochilus, LATH.] : 

 Swift, Hirundo Apus [Cypselus Apus, ILL.] : 



Stone curlew ? Charadrius (Edicnemus [(Edicnemus crepilans, 



TEMM.] ? 



Turtle-dove? Columba Turtur? 



Grasshopper lark, Alauda trivialis [Salicaria Locustella, SELB.] : 



Landra?!, Rallus Crex [Crex pratensis, BECHST.]: 



Largest willow wren, Motacilla Trochilus* [Sylvia sibilatrix, BECHST.] : 

 Redstart, Motacilla Phcenicurus [Phccnicura Ruticilla, 



SWAINS.] : 



Goatsucker, or fern owl, Caprimulgus Europceus: 

 Flycatcher, Musicapa Grisola. 



both very fond in confinement of ripe pears, and I believe, in the south 

 of England, they peck some of them before their departure. 



Vieillot states that the garden warbler is not found in the neighbour- 

 hood of Paris, though it occurs in Piedmont and Provence, where it fre- 

 quents the vicinity of pine forests. I am persuaded that this is entirely 

 erroneous. That bird is abundant in the gardens round London, where 

 it breeds and where I have seen the nest and young birds. I have never 

 known it breed in the northern counties of England, where its visits are 

 of short duration while the supply of ripe cherries lasts. In confine- 

 ment it appears much more tender of cold than the blackcap and white- 

 throat, and there is some difficulty in saving it through a severe winter. 

 It is therefore evident that it prefers the more southern latitudes, and as 

 it is a frequenter of fruit gardens and not of uncultivated wastes, and 



4 Mr. White does not seem to have had any reason for putting the 

 Latin name Motacilla Trochilus to three distinct birds. There is no cause 

 for believing that Linnaeus confounded them, though he only named one 

 of them and overlooked the others. Indeed the wood wren could not be 

 confounded with the yellow wren by any person of the least discrimina- 

 tion. W. H. 



