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NATURAL HISTORY 



19. Goat-sucker, or? ^ , , peginning of ;^/«^: chat- 



fern-owl \ Caprimulgus : < ters by night with a sm- 

 ' * t gular noise. 



CMay 12. A very mute 



20. Fly-catcher, Stoparola : -? 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 

 passer es, save ihejynx and cuculus, which 

 are piece, and the charadrius ( oedicnemus ) 

 and rallus ( ortygometra J, which are grallce. 



These birds, as they stand numerically, 

 belong to the following Linncean genera : 



Jynx , 13. Columba : 



2, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 16, 18. Motacilla: IT. Rallus: 



3,4,5,15* Hirundo: 19. Caprimulgus, 



8, Cuculus i 14. Alauda: 



12. Charadrius . 20» Muscicapn, 



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 : 



RATI NOMINA. 



^ , , , ( These frequent houses: and 



Redbreast, Rubecula : \ haunt out-buildings in the 



^Vren, Passer trog lodytes. ^ ^^.^^^^^ ^ ^^^g^^^ 



