BIRDS OF PASSAGE. 
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5. Sand-martin, 
6. Black cap, 
(T. Nightingale, 
8. Cuckoo, 
9. Middle willow-wren, 
10. White-throat, 
11. Ked-start, 
12. Stone-curlew, 
13. Turtle-dove, 
14. Grasshopper-lark, 
15. Swift, 
1 6. Less reed-sparrov/, 
17. Land-rail, 
18. Largest willow- wren, 
19. Goatsucker, or fern- 
owl, 
20. Fly-catcher, 
RAII NOMINA. 
Hirundo riparia : 
Atricapilla : 
Luscinia : 
Cuculus : 
Regulus non cristatus : 
Ficedulce affinis : 
Ruticilla: 
USUALLY APPEARS ABOUT 
April 13. 
Ditto : a sweet wild note. 
Beginning of April. 
Middle of April. 
Ditto : a sweet plaintive note. 
f Ditto : mean note ; sings on till 
C September. 
y Middle of April : more agree- 
{ able song. 
c End of March : loud noctur - 
C ual whistle. 
(Edicnemus : 
Turtur. 
J, . . • 7 4 c Middle April a small sibilous 
Alaudamtmmalocust^svoce: [ ^^^^^^ ^.^^ ^j^^ j^^^ 
About April 27. 
iA sweet polyglot, but hurry- 
ing : it has the notes of many 
birds. 
A loud harsh note, crex, crex. 
C Cantat voce stridula locustse ; 
) end of April, on the tops of 
I high beeches, 
c Beginning of May ; chatters by 
I night with a singular noise. 
( May 12. A very mute bird: 
J This is tlie latest summer 
I bird of passage. 
some of all of which will certainly make their appearance if fu»li moon happen towards the close 
of the m(rnth. As the nights become light in April, will arrive, besifles the great majority of the 
species already enumerated, the earlier individuals of the 
Chimney-swallow, 
Meadow-crake, 
Common field-wagtail, 
Plaintive stoparel (pied flycatcher, auct.)i 
White-fronted redstart, 
Locustelle, 
Cuckoo, 
and, as the moon approaches to last quarter, the 
Migrant furze-chat, 
Nightingale, 
Eave-swallow, 
Common sandpiper, 
Fen-reedhng, 
Whitethroat-fauvct, 
Sedge-reedling, 
and sometimes the 
White-breasted fauvet, 
then, after the lapse of a fe' 
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, Pholcemvora European 
which is always the last of the summer birds of passage. Of course exceptions to this order will 
sonttstimes occur ; but these are as near the average periods a5 can be given. 1 have seen the nesc 
of the white-breasted fauvet, with four eggs in it, so early as on the twenty-third of April. — Eo« 
Hirundo apus : 
Passer ariindinaceus i 
nor : 
Ortyigometra : 
Regulus non cristatus : 
I Caprimulgus : 
Stoparola : 
Hirundo garrula, 
Crex pratensisf 
Molacilla-budytes Jlavisshnay 
Stoparola luctuosat 
Phwnicura albifrons 
LocHstella dumeticolai 
Cucxilus canorui, 
Saxicola-ruhcird migraioria, 
Philomela hcsdniat 
Hii'undo urbica, 
Totanus hypoleucus, 
Salicana arundinaceat 
Ficedula cinerea, 
Salicaria phragmitist 
Ficedula gnrruhh 
; days, will arrive, early in May, the 
Ficedula hortensis) 
Sylvia sibilanSf 
Lanius collurisf 
Musccapa grisolat 
Columba-turtur Europoea, 
Cypselus murarius, 
