continued till about the middle of June. The willow- 

 wrens (the smaller sort) are horrid pests in a garden, 

 destroying the peas, cherries, and currants, and are 

 so tame that a gun will not scare them * 



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 nuthatch, 

 {Sitta Europcea). Mr. Ray says that the less spotted 

 woodpecker does the same. This noise may be 

 heard a furlong or more off. 



Now is the only time to ascertain the short- 

 winged summer birds; for when the leaf is out there 



* A list of the Summer Birds of Passage discovered in this neighbour- 

 hood ranged somewhat in the order in which they appear : — 



LINN^I NOMINA, 



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, 



Goatsucker, or fern-owl. 



Fly-catcher, 



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Motxcilla trochilus. 

 Junx torquilla. 

 Hirundo rustica. 

 Chelidon urbica. 

 Cotile riparia. 

 Cuculus canorus. 

 Ltisinia philomela. 

 Motacilla atricapilla. 

 Alotacilla sylvia. 

 Motacilla trochilus. 

 Hirundo apus. 

 Charadrius oedicnemus. ? 

 Turtur ald^ovandi. ? 

 Alauda trivialis. 

 Rallus crex. 

 Motacilla trochilus. 

 Ruticilla phoenicura. 

 Capri77iulgus Europcea. 

 Muscicapa grisola. 



