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NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. 



A LIST OF THE SUMMER BlRDS OP PASSAGE DISCOVERED IN THIS 

 NEIGHBOURHOOD, RANGED SOMEWHAT IN THE ORDER IN WHICH 

 THEY APPEAR. 



Smallest willow-wren, 



Wryneck, 



House-swallow, 



Martin, 



Sand-martin, 



Cuckoo, 



Nightingale, 



Blackcap, 



Whitethroat, 



Middle willow-wren, 



Swift, 



Stone-curlew ? 



Turtle-dove ? 



Grasshopper-lark, 



Landrail, 



Largest willow-wren, 



Redstart, 



Goat-sucker, or fern-owl, 



Fly-catcher, 



LINN^EI NOMINA. 



Motacilla trochilus. 

 Junx torquilla. 

 Hirundo rustica. 

 Chelidon urbica. 

 Cotile riparia. 

 Cuculus canorus. 

 Lusinia philomela. 

 Motacilla atricapilla. 

 Motacilla sylvia. 

 Motacilla trochilus. 

 Hirundo apus. 

 Charadrius oedicnemus ? 

 Turtur aldrovandi ? 

 Alauda trivialis. 

 Rallus crex. 

 Motacilla trochilus. 

 Motacilla phcenicura. 

 Caprimulgus Europcea. 

 Muscicapa grisola. 



My countrymen talk much of a bird that makes a clatter 

 with its bill 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. 



Now is the only time to ascertain the short-winged 

 summer birds ; for, when the leaf is out, there is no making 

 any remarks on such a restless tribe ; and when once the 

 young begin to appear it is all confusion : there is no 

 distinction of genus, species, or sex. 



In breeding-time snipes play over the moors, piping and 

 humming; they always hum as they are descending. Is 



