134 SUMMER BIRDS OF PASSAGE. 



7- Nightingale. Luscinia. Beginning of April. ^ 



8. Cuckoo, Cuculus. Middle of April. 



9. Middle wil- J Regulus non cm- f Ditto : a sweet plain- 

 low wren, { tatus. \ tive note. 



10. White-throat, Fice^.ffini, f ^^^ J 



H. Red-start, &*<*. \ *; * 



~, ,. ( End of March: loud 



12. Stone-curlew, CEdicnemus. | nocturnal whistle. 



13. Turtle-dove, Turtur. 



f A i . . ( Middle of April : a 



14. Grasshopper (Alanda m,n,ma I g / 



lark, \ focte W ce. ^ ,m the end of July. 



15. Swift, Hirundo apus. About April 27. 



16. Less reed- (Pass 

 sparrow, 1 ce 



/" A sweet polyglot, but 

 er arundina-J hurrying: it has 

 us minor. j the notes of many 



C birds. 



Land-rail, Ortygometra. -! 



A loud, harsh note, 

 crex crex. 



(Cantat voce stridula 

 locustce : end of 



low-wren, \ tatus. \ April, on the tops 



V of high beeches. 



Beginning of May : 



19. Goat-sucker. "I ^ i chatters by night 



fern-owi; y 



f Beginnin 



r,"l ^ i chatter 



i f Capnmulgus. ~< . , 

 l,J i witti 



V. noise. 



f May 12. A very 



OA T,, 1 mute bird : this is 



20. Flycatcher, Stoparola. jf f the largest summer 



*. /* ftn'-i. J ^ bird of passage. 



*v * /j / ,- 



This assemblage of curious and amusing birds 

 belongs to ten several genera of the Linnsean 

 system; and are all of the ordo passeres, save 

 the jynx and cuculus, which are piece, and the 

 charadrius (oedicnemus) and rallus (ortygometra,) 

 which are yrallce. 



