XX11. INTRODUCTION. 



the wildest, most mountainous, and woody. The great 

 quantities of berries and other kinds of fruit produced in our 

 hedges, heaths, and plantations, bring small birds in great 

 numbers, and birds of prey in consequence: our shores, and 

 the numerous little islands adjacent to them, afford shelter 

 and protection to an infinite variety of almost all kinds of 

 water fowl. To enumerate the various kinds of birds that 

 visit this island annually will not, we presume, be unaccept- 

 able to our readers, nor improper in this part of our work. 

 The following are chiefly selected from Mr. White's Natural 

 History of Selborne, and are arranged nearly in the order 

 of their appearing : 



1. Wryneck Middle of March. 



2. Smallest Willow Wren . . . Latter end of ditto. 



3. House Swallow . . . -. . Middle of April. 



4. Martin Middle of April. 



5. Sand Martin Ditto. 



6. Blackcap Ditto. 



7. Nightingale Beginning of April. 



8. Cuckoo . Middle of ditto. 



9. Middle W T illow Wren . . . Ditto. 



10. White-throat Ditto. 



11. Redstart Ditto. 



12. Great Plover or Stone Curlew . End of March. 



13. Grasshopper Lark .... Middle of April. 



14. Swift Latter end of ditto. 



15. Lesser Reed Sparrow . . 



1 6. Com Crake or Land Rail . . 



17. Largest Willow Wren . . . End of April. 



1 8. Fern Owl Latter end of May. 



19. Flycatcher Middle of ditto.* 



* This, according to Mr. White, is the latest summer bird of pas- 

 sage; but the arrival of some of the summer birds is very uncertain : 

 those which are the first in some seasons, are the last in others : this 

 can only be determined by their song. 



