SUMMER BIRDS OF PASSAGE. 



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12. Stone-curlew, 



13. Turtle-dove, 



14. Grasshopper- 



lark, 



17. Landrail, 



End of March : loud 

 nocturnal whistle. 



Oedicnemus. 



Turtur. 



f A , , . . T Middle of April: a small 



C Alauda minima J sibilous ^ till the 



\ locust* voce. ^ end of July. 



15. Swift, Hirundo apus. About April 27. 



r ,. f A sweet polyglot, but 



16. Less reed-spar- (Passer arundmaceus ] hurrying: it has the 



row, I minor. ^ notes of many birds. 



{A loud, harsh note, crex, 

 crex. 



J Cantat voce stridula 

 locusta : end of April, 



Ortygometra* 



wren, 



\ tus. 



19. 



. Goat-sucker, or! Caprimu i gus . 

 fern-owl, J * 



(Can 

 . \ lo> 

 } or 

 ( be 



20. Fly-catcher, 



Stoparola, 



{ 



on the tops of high 

 . beeches. 



r Beginning of May : chat- 

 < ters by night with a 

 (_ singular noise. 



ay 12. A very mute 

 bird : this is the latest 

 summer bird of pas- 

 sage. 



This assemblage of curious and amusing birds belongs to ten 

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

 ofpasseres, save theyww^ and cuculus, which are piece, and the 

 charadrius (oedicnemus) and rallus, (ortygometra?) which are 

 grallce. 



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

 ing Linnaean genera : 



1, Yunx, 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 : 



d-breast, 

 Vren, 



dge-sparrow, 



RAII NOMINA. 



Hubecula. 

 Passer troglodytes. 



Curruca. 



G 2 



f These frequent houses ; 

 J and haunt out-build- 

 J ings in the winter : eat 

 V spiders. 



{Haunt sinks, for crumbs, 

 and other sweepings. 



