64 THE NUTHATCH. 



A Lint of the Summer Birds of Passage discovered in tliis iieighiowhood, 

 ranged somewhat in the order in which they appear. 



LINN£l KOHINA. 



Smallest willow-WTcn, Motacilla trochiliis. 



Wryneck, Jpnx torquilla. 



House-swallow, Hirundo rustica. 



Martin, ffirundo urbica. 



Sand-martin, Jlinmdo riparia. 



Cuckoo, Cueiihis canm-m. 



Nightingale, Motacilla luseinia. 



■Blackcap, Motacilla atricapilla. 



White-throat, Motacilla sylvia. 



Middle willow-wren, Motacilla trochilus. 



Swift, Hirwndo apus. 



Stone curlew ? Charadritis cediemmus ? 



Turtle-dove? Turtur aldrovandi? 



Grasshopper lark, Alauda trimalis. 



Landrail, SaMus crex. 



Largest willow-wren, Motacilla trocMlus. 



Redstart, Motacilla phcaiicurws. 



Goatsucker, or fern-owl, Caprimulgus em-opceus. 



Fly-catcher, Mvsdcapa grisola. 



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 sifta euro^gma (the nuthatch). Mr. Eay 



curruca hm-tensis, Becbst., with which Mr. White was not acquainted, as it is 

 not mentioned by him, and does not appear in his list of summer birds ; yet I 

 am confident that they will be found plentifully at Selbome, when the Kentish 

 cherries are ripe. They attacked my cherries in great numbers when I lived 

 in the south of Berkshire, not much more than twenty miles from Selbome. 

 These young birds have a strong tinge of yellow on the sides, which disappears 

 after they moult, and gives them very much the appearance of the yellow wren 

 when seen upon the tree, though they are larger and stouter, and in habits very 

 much resemble the blackcaps, with whom they are associated in the plunder of 

 cherry-trees. I have never seen the pettyehaps in Yorkshire until the cherries 

 are ripe, when they immediately make their appearance and attack the Kentish 

 cherry particularly, being so greedy that I have often taken them with a 

 fishing-rod tipped with birdlime, while they were pulling at the fruit. The 

 moment they have finished the last Kentish cherry, they disappear for the 

 season. If they finish the cherries in the morning, they are gone before noon. 

 I am persuaded that they appear and disappear in the same manner at Selborne, 

 and are probably to be found there only while the cherries are ripe, which 

 accounts for Mr. White's having mistaken them for yellow wrens when he 

 saw them in the fruit trees. They breed in the market gardens about London, 



