THE NATURAL HISTORY 
[LETT. 
1. Wryneck, 
2. Smallest wil- 
low-wren, 
3. Swallow, 
4. Martin, 
5. Sand-martin, 
6. Blackcap, 
7. Nightingale, 
8. Cuckoo, 
[9. Middle wil- 
low-wren, 
10. White-throat, 
11. Eed-start, 
12. Stone-curlew, 
13. Turtle-dove, 
14. Grasshopper- 
lark, 
15. Swift, 
16. Less reed- I 
sparrow, ( 
17. Land-rail, 
18. Largest wil- 
low-wren, j 
19. Goat-sucker, or ) 
Fern-owl, ( 
RAII NOMINxV. 
( J unx, sive tor- \ 
I quill a : j 
{ Regulns non cris- ) 
I tatus : ) 
Hiriindo domestica: 
Hirv.ndo rustica : 
Hirundo riparia : 
Atricapilla : 
Lusciuia : 
Cucuhis : 
{ Regulus 7} on a is- } 
I tatus : 
Ficedula affinis : | 
Buticilla: 
Oedicnemns : 
Turtur : 
\ Alauda minima 
\ locustce voce: 
Hirundo cqnis : 
" artmdina 
ecus minor : 
Ortygometra : 
) Begulus non cris- 
' tatus: 
Coprimiilgus : 
20. Fly-catcher, Stopai^ola: 
APPEARS ABOUT 
The middle of March : harsh note. 
• March 23 : chirps till September. 
April 13. 
Ditto. 
Ditto. 
April 13, a sweet wild note. 
Beginning of April. 
Middle of April. 
I Ditto : a sweet plaintive note. 
Ditto : mean note ; sings on till 
September. 
Ditto : more agreeable song. 
\ End of March : loud noctui nal 
I whistle. 
\ Middle of April : a small sibilous 
I note, till the end of July. 
April 27. 
I A sweet polyglot, but hurrying : 
[ it has the notes of many birds. 
A loud harsh note, " crex, crex." 
" Cantat voce stridula locustse 
end of April ; on the tops of 
high beeches. 
Beginning of May : chatters by 
night with a singular noise. 
May 12. A very mute bird. This 
is tlie latest summer bird of 
passage. 
This assemblage of curious and amusing birds belongs to ten 
several genera of the Linnaean system ; and are all of the ordo of 
passeres, save the jynx and cuculus, which are piece, and the cha- 
radrius (oedicnemus) and rallus {ortygometra) which are grallce. 
These birds, as they stand numerically, belong to the following 
Linngean genera : — 
1 , Jynx : 
2, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 16, 18. Motacilla: 
3, 4, 5, 15. Hirundo : 
8. Cuculus : 
12. Charadrius 
13. Columha. 
17. Rallus. 
19. Caprimulg us. 
14. Alauda. 
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 
