BIRDS diSi" PASSAGE. 
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5. Sand-martin, 
6. Black cap, 
^. Nightingale, 
8. Cuckoo, 
9. Middle willow-wren, 
10. White-throat, 
11. Red-start, 
12. Stone-curlew, 
13. Turtle-dove, 
14. Grasshopper-latk, 
15. Swift, 
RAII NOMINA. 
Hirundo riparia : 
Atricapilla : 
Luscinia : 
Cuculus : 
Regulus non cristatus • 
Ficedulce affinis : 
Ruticilla : 
(Edicnemus : 
Turtur. 
USUALLY APPEARS ABOUT 
April 13. 
Ditto : a sweet wild note. 
Beginning of April. 
Middle of April. 
Ditto : a sweet plaintive note. 
c Ditto : mean note ; sings on till 
I September. 
c Middle of April : more agree- 
c able song. 
{End of March : loud noctur- 
nal wrhistle. 
Hirundo apus : 
Passer artmdimceus mi 
nor : 
16. Less reed-sparrow, 
17. Land-rail, Ortyigometra : 
18. Largest willow- wren, Regulus non cristatus 
19. Goatsucker, or fern- j caprimulgus: 
20. Fly-catcher, Stoparola : 
About April 27. 
A sweet polyglot, but hurry- 
ing : it has the notfes of many 
birds. 
A loud harsh note, crex, crex. 
C Cantat voce stridulU locust® ; 
^ end of April, on the tops of 
t high beeches, 
r Beginning of May ; chatters by 
t night with a singular noise. 
i May 12. A very mute bird ; 
■I This is the latest summer 
^ bird of passage. 
some of all of which will certainly make their appearance if full moon happen towards the close 
of the month. As the nights become light in April, will arrive, besidies the great majority of the 
species already enumerated, the earlier individuals of the 
Chimney-swallowj 
Meadow-crake, 
Common field-wagtail, 
Plaintive stoparel (pied flycatcher, a«ct.)» 
White-fronted iredstart, 
Locustelle, 
Cuckoo, 
and, as the moon approaches to last quarter, the 
Migrant furze-chat, 
Nightingale, 
Eave-swallow, 
Common sandpiper, 
Fen-reedling, 
Whitethroat-fauvet) 
Sedge-reedling, 
and sometimes the 
White-breasted fauvet, 
then, after the lapse of a few days, will ki'tive, early in May^ the 
Hirundo garrula^ 
Crex pratensisj 
Motacilla-budytes flavissimat 
Stoparola luctuosuf 
Phoenicura alhifrons 
Locustella dumeticolot 
Cuculus canorusi 
Saxicola-rubetra migratoriat 
Philomela lusciniuf 
Hirundo urbica, 
Totanus hypoleucus, 
Salicaria arundinaceat 
Ficedula cinerea, 
Salicaria phragmitist 
Ficedula garrulai 
Garden-fauvet, 
Grove, or shaking pettychaps, 
Flusher shrike, 
Gray flycatcher. 
Turtle-dove, 
Common swift, 
and still later» many not till the middle of June, the 
European motheater, Pkoloenivora Europea, 
which is always the last of the summer birds of passage. Of course exceptions to this order will 
sometimes occur ; but these are as near the average periods as can be given. I have seen the nest 
of the white-breasted fauvet, with four eggs in it, so early as on the twenty-third of April.— Ed. 
Ficedula hortensis^ 
Sylvia sibilans, 
Lanius coliurisf 
Mnscicapa grisolat 
Colunlba-turtur Europeea^ 
Cypselus murarius. 
