MIGRATION OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



JVoodbeckers. 



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Wryneck, 



Cuckoo, 



Nuthatch. 



Kingfijher. 



Creeper. 



Hoopoe. 



Chough. 



Continue with us the whole year; 

 their food being the larva of infects, 

 which lodge thernfelves at all times 

 in the bark of trees. 



Is a bird that leaves us in the winter. 

 If its diet be ants alone, as feveral 

 aifert, the caufe of its migration is 

 very evident. This bird difappears 

 before winter, and revifits us in the 

 fpring a little earlier than the Cuckoo. 



Difappears early in autumn ; the re- 

 treat of this and the preceding bird 

 is quite unknown to us. 



Refides in this country the whole 

 year. 



Continues here through all feafons. 



Never leaves the country. 



Comes to England but by accident : 

 we once indeed heard of a pair that 

 attempted to make their nefl in a 

 meadow at Selborne, Hampjhire, but 

 were frighted away by the curiofity 

 of people. It breeds in Germany. 



Inhabkes Great Britain at all times 5 

 its food being infects and corn. 



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Crous, 



