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passeres save the jynx and cucultts, which are piccBj and the char- 

 adrius (pedicnermis) and rallus {prtygometrd), which are grallce. 



These birds, as they stand numerically, belong to the following 

 Linncean genera : 



2, 6, 7, 9, 10, II, i6, i8. 



3. 4. 5. 15- 

 8. 



12. 



Jynx : 



Motacilla : 

 Hirurtdo : 

 Cuculus : 

 Charadrius : 



13. Columha : 

 17. Rallus : 



19. Caprimulgus : 



14. A lauda : 



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 : 



( These frequent bouses ; and 

 -J haunt outbuildings in the 

 t, winter : eat spiders. 

 /Haunt sinks for crumbs and 

 \ other sweepings. 



I These frequent shallow rivulets 

 near the spring heads, where 

 they never freeze : eat the 

 aurelise of Phryganea. The 

 smallest birds that walk. 

 /Some of these are to be seen 

 \ with us the winter through. 



(■This is the smallest British bird : 

 ■J haunts the tops of tall trees ; 

 (^ stays the winter through. 



A List of the Winter Birds of Passage round this neighbourhood, 

 ranged somewhat in the order in rvhich they appear : 



I This is a new migration which 

 I have lately discovered about 

 Michaelmas week, and again 

 about the fourteenth of 

 March. 



' [By the white wagtail White means our common pied wagtail (M. lugubris, 

 Temm.), which was not then distinguished from our white wagtail [M. alba, L.). 

 What species are to be understood by the other two names which White gives we 

 cannot be sure ; by the yellow wagtail he probably means our grey wagtail (M. 

 melanope, Pall. ) ; see note on Letter XLIII. to Pennant. By grey wagtail it is not 

 impossible that he meant the young of the pied wagtail, mistaking them for a differ- 

 ent species. Our white wagtail is an uncommon summer visitant, our grey wagtail 

 a resident, our yellow wagtail (M. raii, Bonap. ) a summer visitant.] 



2 [The wheatear is a summer visitant.] 



' Most of our stone-chats migrate before winter.] 



* [A summer visitant.] 



