192 NATURAL HISTORY 



14. Grasshopper {Alauda. minima lo-) Middleof April: a small sibilous 



lark, ( custcevoce: \ note, till the end of July. 



15. Swift, Hirundo apus: About April 27. 



16. Less reed spar- ( Passer arundina- ) A sweet polyglot, but hurrying: 



row, ? ceus minor : ) it has the notes of many birds. 



17. Land-rail, Ortygometra: A loud harsh note, crex, crex. 



18. Largest wil- I Regains non cris- $ " Ca " iat ce * tridul * ,'<"" 



low wren, \ tatus: j ? nd . K A P nl on the to P s of 



( high beeches. 



19. Goatsucker, or> r . ; \ Beginning of May : chatters by 



fern owl, { ^ apri } night with a singular noise. 



f May 12. A very mute bird : this 



20. Flycatcher, Stopnrola: j is the latest summer bird of 



( passage. 



This assemblage of curious and amusing birds be- 

 longs to ten several genera of the Liniuvan system : 

 and are all of the Ordo of Passeres, save the Jynx and 

 Cttculvt, which are Piece, and the Charadrius (CEdicne- 

 rnus) and Rallus (Ortygometra), which are Grallcc. 



These birds, as they stand numerically, belong to the 

 following Linnaean genera : 



1, Jynx: 13. Columba : 



2, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 16, 18. Motacilla : 17. Rallux: 



3, 4, 5, 15. Hirundo : 19. Caprimulgus : 

 8. Cvculus: 14. Alauda: 



12. Charadriua: 20. Muscicapa: 



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, thouuli 

 insect-eaters, stay with us the year round : 



RAH NO.M1NA. 



Redbreast, RubeaOa: $ Th ? se ^quent houses ; and 



P*sserTr M es:\ ^ ^^ th, 



Hedge sparrow, Curruca : 



/'These frequent shallow rivulets 



White wagtail, Motacilla alba: \ near the spring heads, where 



Yellow wagtail, Motacilla fiat a : -/ they never freeze : eat the an- 



Gray wagtail, Motacilla cinerea : i reliaeof Phryganeae. The siual 1- 



V. est birds that walk. 



Wheatear <Ena: 



Whin chat (Enanthf secunda : 



