198 NATURAL HISTORY 



19. Goat-sucker, or?^ . , ( Beginning of y»7«y; cl.al- 



fern-owl S ^'V^'"«*5^""' • i ters by night with a sni- 



' * ( gular "noise. 



CMa;/ 12. A very mute 



20. Fly-catcher, Stoparola : •? bird : this is the latest 



^ Summer bird of j)assage. 



This assemblage of curious and amusing 

 birds belongs to ten several genera of the 

 Liiindan system ; and are all of the ordo of 

 passeres, save the jf/n.v and cuculusy which 

 ^re piece y and the charadrius f oedicnenius ) 

 and rallus (ortygomelraj, vv^hich are grallce. 



These birds, as they stand numerically, 

 belong to the following Linnccan genera : 



Jynx . 13. Columba : 



2, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 16, 18. Motncilla: 17. Rallus: 



3,4,5,15, Hlrundo : 19. Caprimulgus . 



8. Cticulus 1 14. Alaufla : 



12. C/unadritts . 20. Muscicajm, 



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 : 



KAII XOSirVA. 



Redbreast, RubecuUc : ( '^"f ^^^ (Vequent house.; and 



-...„. n A I J . •{ haunt out-buddingsm the 



^^'^''' Passertroglndf/us.-^ Winter : eat .pi.rer.. 



