SUMMER BIRDS OF PASSAGE. 65 



si 7. fEnd of March. : loud 



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



13. Turtle-dove, Turtur. 



f A1 j . . ("Middle of April: a small 



14. Grasshopper- (Alauda minima J sibi]ous / ^ h 



lark, \ locust* voce. | end of July. 



15. Swift, Hirundo apus. About April 27. 



16. Less reed-spar- f Passer arundinaceus 



minor. 



rA sweet polyglot, but 

 J hurrying : it has the 

 (^ notes of many birds. 

 17. Landrail, Ortygometra. f A loud, harsh note, crex, 



crex. 



f Cantat voce stridula 



18. Largest willow- ( Regulus non crista- ] locusta : end of April, 

 \ tus. j on the tops of high 



beeches. 



f 

 j 

 j 

 V. 



19. Goat-sucker, or ^ r^; m ,,i, D J ^r w n i g h t " 



singular noise. 



p 



20. Fly-catcher, Stoparola. 



This assemblage of curious and amusing birds belongs to ten 

 several genera of the Linnsean system ; and are all of the ordo 

 of passer es, save \heyunx and cuculus, M r hich are piece, and the 

 charadrius (oedicnemus) arid rallus, (ortygometra,) which are 

 grallce. 



These birds, as they stand numerically, belong to the follow- 

 ing Linnaean genera : 



1, Yunxj 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 : 



EAII NOMINA. 



f These frequent houses ; 



Red-breast, JRubecula. J and haunt out-build- 



Wren, Passer troglodytes. J ings in the winter : eat 



(^ spiders. 



Hedge-sparrow, Curruca. { Hau ^ ^ ks ' for crurabs ' 



\ and other sweepings. 



