continued till about the middle of June. The willow- 

 wrens (the smaller sort) are horrid pests in a garden, 

 destroying the peas, cherries, and currants, and are 

 so tame that a gun w^ill not scare them."^ 



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 nuthatch, 

 {Sitta Europoed), Mr. Ray says that the less spotted 

 woodpecker does the same. This noise may be 

 heard a furlong or more off. 



Now is the only time to ascertain the short- 

 winged summer birds; for when the leaf is out there 



* A list of the Summer Birds of Passage discovered in this neighbour- 

 hood ranged somewhat in the order in which they appear : — 



LINN/EI NOMINA. 



wSmallest willow- wren, 



Mot icilla trochilus. 



Wryneck, 



Junx torqtiilla. 



House-swallow, 



Hiriindo rustica. 



Martin, 



Chelido7i u7-bica. 



Sand-martin, 



Cotile riparia. 



Cuckoo, 



Cticuhis cmiorus. 



Nightingale, 



Ltisinia philomela. 



Blackcap, 



Motacilla atricapilla. 



Whitethroat, 



Motacilla sylvia. 



Middle willow-wren. 



Alotacilla trochilus. 



Swift, 



Hirundo apiis. 



Stone curlew, ? 



Charadrius oedicnemus. ? 



Turtle-dove, ? 



Ttirtur ald^ovandi. ? 



Grasshopper-lark, 



Alauda tiivialis. 



Landrail, 



Rallus crex. 



Largest willow-wren. 



Motacilla tivchilus. 



Redstart, 



R 11 ti cilia pha^niciira. 



Goatsucker, or fern-owl, 



Caprinnilgiis Etiropcea, 



Fly-catcher, 



Muscicapa grisola. 



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