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THE NATUKAL HISTORY 



natural history : and I am the more ready to fulfil my promise, 

 because 1 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 discovej-ed in this neighbourhood, ranged somewhat in the order 

 in which they appear : 



USUALLY APPEARS ABOUT 



/The middle of March : harsh 

 \ note. 



/ March 23 ; chirps till Sep- 

 y iember. 



April 13. 



Ditto. 



Ditto. 



Ditto : a sweet wild note. 



Beginning of April. 



Middle of April. 



Ditto -. a sweet plaintive note, 

 f Ditto : mean note ; sings on till 

 \ September. 



Ditto : more agreeable song. 

 / End of March : loud nocturnal 

 \ whistle. 



Wryneck, 



Smallest willow-wren, 1 



Swallow, 



Martin, 



Sand-martin, 



Black-cap, 



Nightingale, 



Cuckoo, 



Middle willow-wren,' 



White-throat, 



11. Red-start, 



12. Stone-curlew, 



13. Turtle-dove, 



14. Grasshopper-lark,' 



15. Swift, 



16. Less reed-sparrow,' 



3- 

 4- 

 S- 

 6. 



7- 

 8. 



9- 



10. 



RAII NOMINA. 



Jynx, sive torquilla : 



Regulus non cristatus : 



Hirundo domestica : 

 Hirundo rustica : 

 Hirundo riparia : 

 Atricapilla : 

 Luscinia : 

 Cuculus : 

 Regulus non cristatus : 



FicedulcE affinis : ■* 



Ruticilla : ■• 



Qedicnemus : 



17. Land-rail,' 



18. Largest willow- wren," 



Turtur : 

 (Alauda minima lo- (Middle of April : asmallsibil- 

 \ custes voce : \ ous note, till the end of /a/K. 



Hirundo apus : About April 27. 



/ Passer arundinaceus f A sweet polyglot, but hurrying ; 

 \ minor: \ it has the notes of many birds. 



19. Goat-sucker, 



owl, 



20. Fly-catcher,' 



or fern-1 



Oriygometra : A loud harsh note, crex, crex. 



{Cantat voce stridulS. locustas ; 

 end of April, on the tops of 

 high beeches. 



Caprimulgus : 

 Stoparola : 



/ Beginning of May : chatters by 

 \ night with a singular noise. 

 (May 12. A very mute bird ; 

 < this is the latest summer 

 |_ bird of passage. 



This assemblage of curious and amusing birds belongs to ten 

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



The cb.iScha.fi (Phylloscopus rufus, Bechst. ).] 

 "The willow-wren [P. trochilus, L. ).] 



Sylvia rufa, Bodd.] * [R. phoenicurus, L.] 



The grasshopper-warbler [Locustella ncevia, Bodd.).] 



The sedge-warbler (Acrocephalus phragmitis, Bechst.).] 



Crex pratensis, Bechst.] 



'The wood-wren {Pkylloscopus sibilatrix, Bechst.).] 

 'Muscicapa grisola, L.] 



