SUMMER BIRDS OF PASSAGE. 



135 



These birds, as they stand numerically, belong to 

 the Linnsean genera : 



1, Jynx. 13, Columba. 



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



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

 8, Cuculus. 14, Alauda. 



12, Charadrius. 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 : 



RAII NOMINA. 



Wheatear, 



Whin-chat, 

 Stone-chatter, 



Golden-crowned 

 wren, 



Oenanthe. 



CEnanthesecunda. 

 (Enanthe tertia. 



(nea. The smallest 

 birds that walk. 

 TSome of these are to 

 ^^ be seen with us the 

 winter through. 



Regulus cristatus. 



' This is the smallest 

 British bird: haunts 

 the tops oftall trees : 

 stays the winter 

 through. 



