LETTER XXV. 



To THE Honourable Daines Barrington. 



When I was in town last month I partly engaged 

 that I would some time do myself the honour to 

 write to you on the subject of natural history : and I 

 am the more ready to fulfil my promise, because I 

 see you are a gentleman of great candour, and one 

 that will make allowances; especially where the 

 writer professes to be an out-door naturalist, one 

 that takes his observations from the subject itself, 

 and not from the writings of others. 



The following is a list of the summer birds of 

 passage which I have discovered in this neighbour- 

 hood, ranged somewhat in the order in which they 

 appear: 



RAII NOMINA. 



[ Junx^ sive tor- 



I quilla. 



{ Regulus non cris- 



1. Wryneck, 



2. Smallest wil- 



low-wren, 



3. Swallow, 



4. Martin, 



5. Sand-martin, 



6. Blackcap, 



7. Nightingale, 



8. Cuckoo, 



9. Middle wil- 



low-wren, 



10. White-throat, 



11. Red-start, 



12. Stone-curlew, 



[ tatus. 

 Hirundo domestica. 

 Hirundo rustica. 

 Hirundo riparia. 

 Atricapilla. 

 Luscinia. 

 Cuiulus. 



APPEARS ABOUT 



The middle of March : harsh 

 note. 



March 23 : chirps till Septem- 

 ber. 



April 13. 



Ditto. 



Ditto. 



April 13 : a sweet wild note. 



Beginning of April. 



Middle of April. 



[ Res[ulus non crisA ^.^^ . \ • r ^f^ 



\ ^ \ Ditto : a sweet plaintive note. 



[ tatus. J 



Ficedula affinis. 1 1^^"« ^ "^^^" "«^^ = "^^"S^ °" 

 [ till September. 



Ruticilla. Ditto : more agreeaVjle song. 



Oedicnemus. \ ^"^ ^^ ^^^^^ '' ^°^^ nocturnal 



[ whistle. 

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