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passeres save the jynx and cuculus, which are piece, and the char- 

 adrius (oedicnemus} and rallus (ortygometra), which are grallce. 



These birds, as they stand numerically, belong to the following 

 Linncean genera : 



2, 6, 7, 9, 10, ii, 16, 18. 

 3- 4, 5. IS- 



Jynx : 

 Motacilla : 

 Hirundo : 

 Cuculus : 

 Charadrius : 



13. Columba : 

 17. Rallus : 



19. Caprimulgus 



14. Alauda : 



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, though insect-eaters, stay with us the year round : 



Redbreast, 

 Wren, 



Hedge-sparrow, 



White-wagtail,* 

 Yellow-wagtail, 

 Grey- wagtail, 



Wheat-ear, 2 



Whin-chat, 

 Stone-chatter, 3 



RAII NOMINA. 



Rubecula : 

 Passer troglodytes 



Curruca : 



Motacilla alba : 

 Motacilla flava : 

 Motacilla cinerea 



Oenanthe : 



Oenanthe secunda 

 Oenanthe tertia : 



Golden-crowned wren, Regulus cristatus : 



( These frequent houses ; and 

 -j haunt outbuildings in the 



t winter : eat spiders. 

 /Haunt sinks for crumbs and 

 \ other sweepings. 



-'These frequent shallow rivulets 



near the spring heads, where 



-( they never freeze : eat the 



aureliae of Phryganea. The 



v smallest birds that walk. 

 /Some of these are to be seen 

 \ with us the winter through. 



f This is the smallest British bird : 

 -I haunts the tops of tall trees ; 

 ^ stays the winter through. 



A Lisrrofthe WINTER BIRDS of PASSAGE round this neighbourhood, 

 ranged somewhat in the order in which they appear : 



{This is a new migration which 

 I have lately discovered about 

 Michaelmas week, and again 

 about the fourteenth of 

 March. 



1 [By the white wagtail White means our common pied wagtail (M. lugubris, 

 Temm.), which was not then distinguished from our white wagtail (M. alba, L.). 

 What species are to be understood by the other two names which White gives we 

 cannot be sure ; by the yellow wagtail he probably means our grey wagtail (M. 

 melanope, Pall.) ; see note on Letter XLIII. to Pennant. By grey wagtail it is not 

 impossible that he meant the young of the pied wagtail, mistaking them for a differ- 

 ent species. Our white wagtail is an uncommon summer visitant, our grey wagtail 

 a resident, our yellow wagtail (M. raii, Bonap.) a summer visitant.] 



2 [The wheatear is a summer visitant.] 



3 [Most of our stone-chats migrate before winter.] 



4 [A summer visitant.] 



