54 BIRDS OF PASSAGE. 



A List of the Summer Birds of Passage discovered in this 

 neighbourhood, ranged somewhat in the order in which they 

 appear. 



Linnaei Nomina. 



Smallest willow-wren, Motacilla trochilus. 



Wry-neck, Jynx torquilla. 



House-swallow, Hirundo rustica. 



Martin, Hirundo urbica. 



Sand-martin, Hirundo riparia. 



Cuckoo, Cuculus canorus. 



Nightingale, Motacilla luscinia. 



Blackcap, Motacilla atricapilla. 



Whitethroat, Motacilla sylvia. 



Middle willow-wren, Motacilla trochilus. 



Swift, Hirundo apus. 



Stone curlew ? Charadrius oedicnemus ? 



Turtle-dove ? Turtur Aldrovandi ? 



Grasshopper lark, Alauda trivialis. 



Landrail, Rallus crex. 



Largest willow-wren, Motacilla trochilus. 



Redstart, Motacilla phcenicurus. 



Goatsucker, or fern-owl, Caprimulgus europteus. 



Fly-catcher, Muscicapa grisola. 



My countrymen talk much of a bird that makes 

 a clatter with its hill against a dead bough, or some 

 old pales, calling it a jar-bird. I procured one to 

 be shot in the very fact ; it proved to be the sitta 

 Europcea (the nuthatch). Mr. Ray says, that the 

 less spotted woodpecker does the same. This noise 

 may be heard a furlong or more 1 . 



1 The nuthatch, sitta Europeea, Linn., is the only species 

 of the genus inhabiting Europe ; in this country it appears 

 confined to England, never having been traced farther north 

 than Northumberland. The following animated sketch, a 

 good deal in the style of our author, I have extracted from 

 Loudon's Journal of Natural History, as giving a correct 

 idea of the manners of this curious species : " I had never 

 seen the little bird called the nuthatch, when one day, 



