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THE NATURAL HISTORY 



natural history : and I am the more ready to fulfil my promise, 

 because I see you are a gentleman of great candour, and one that 

 will make allowances ; especially where the writer professes to 

 be an out-door naturalist, one that takes his observations from the 

 subject itself, and not from the writings of others. 



The following is a LIST of the SUMMER BIRDS of PASSAGE which I 

 have discovered in this neighbourhood, ranged somewhat in the order 

 in which they appear : 



RAII NOMINA. 



1. Wryneck, 



2. Smallest willow-wren, 1 



3. Swallow, 



USUALLY APPEARS ABOUT 



/The middle of March : harsh 

 \ note. 



. / March 23 : chirps till Sep- 

 y tember. 

 April 13. 

 Ditto. 

 Ditto. 



Ditto : a sweet wild note. 

 Beginning of April. 

 Middle of April. 

 Ditto : a sweet plaintive note . 

 / Ditto : mean note ; sings on till 

 \ September. 



Ditto : more agreeable song. 

 / End of March : loud nocturnal 

 ^ whistle. 

 Turtur : 



( Alauda minima lo- / Middle of April : asmallsibil- 

 1^ ous note, till the end of July. 

 About April 27. 



/ Passer arundinaceus ( A sweet polyglot, but hurrying : 

 \ minor: \ it has the notes of many birds. 



Ortygometra : A loud harsh note, crex, crex. 



{Cantat voce stridula locustae ; 

 end of April, on the tops of 

 high beeches. 



/ Beginning of May : chatters by 

 \ night with a singular noise. 

 CMay 12. A very mute bird : 



Stoparola : -j this is the latest summer 



(^ bird of passage. 



This assemblage of curious and amusing birds belongs to ten 

 several genera of the Linncean system ; and are all of the ordo of 



Martin, 



5. Sand-martin, 



6. Black-cap, 



7. Nightingale, 



8. Cuckoo, 



9. Middle willow- wren, 2 



10. White-throat, 



11. Red-start, 



12. Stone-curlew, 



13. Turtle-dove, 



14. Grasshopper-lark, 5 



15. Swift, 



1 6. Less reed-sparrow, 6 



17. Land-rail, 7 



1 8. Largest willow- wren, 8 



19. Goat-sucker, or fern- 



owl, 



20. Fly-catcher, 9 



fynx, sive torquilla : 



Regulus non cristatus : 



Hirundo domestica : 

 Hirundo rustica : 

 Hirundo riparia : 

 Atricapilla : 

 Luscinia : 

 Cuculus : 

 Regulus non cristatus . 



Ficedula affinis : 3 

 Ruticilla : 4 

 Oedicnemus : 



\ custce voce : 

 Hirundo apus : 



- Caprimulgus : 



The chiffchaff (Phylloscopus rufus, Bechst.).] 

 The willow- wren (P. trochilus, L.).] 



Sylvia rufa, Bodd.] 



. phoenicurus, L.] 



The grasshopper- warbler (Locustella ntzvia, Bodd.).] 

 The sedge-warbler (Acrocephalus phragmitis, Bechst.)/ 

 Crexpratensis, Bechst.] 



8 The wood-wren (Phylloscopus sibilatrix, Bechst.).] 

 Muscicapa grisola, L.] 



