INTRODUCTION. 
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of berries and other kinds of fruit produced in our hedges* 
heaths, and plantations, bring fmall birds in great numbers, and 
birds of prey in confequence : Our fhores, and the numerous 
little iflands adjacent to them, afford fhelter and protection to 
an infinite variety of almofl all kinds of water fowl. To enu- 
merate the various kinds of birds that vifit this ifland annually 
will not, we prefume, be unacceptable to our readers, nor im- 
proper in this part of our work. The following are feleCted 
chiefly from Mr White’s Natural Hiftory of Selborne, and are 
arranged nearly in the order of their appearing. 
I Wryneck, ----- 
Middle of March 
2 Smalleft Willow Wren, - 
- 
Latter end of ditto 
3 Houfe Swallow, - - - 
- 
Middle of April 
4 Martin, ----- 
Ibid 
5 Sand Martin, - - - «* 
* 
Ibid 
6 Black-cap, ----- 
Ibid 
7 Nightingale, - - - - 
- 
Beginning of April 
8 Cuckoo, ----- 
Middle of ditto 
9 Middle Willow Wren, 
- 
Ibid 
jo White throat, - - - - 
- 
Ibid 
3 1 Redftart, ----- 
Ibid 
12 Great Plover or Stone Curlew, 
End of March 
13 Grafshopper Lark, - - 
- 
Middle of April 
14 Swift, ------ 
Latter end of ditto 
15 Leffer Reed Sparrow, 
- 
16 Corncrake or Land Rail, 
- 
17 Largeft Willow Wren, - 
- 
End of April 
J 8 Fern Owl, - - - - - 
Latter end of May 
19 Flycatcher, - - - - 
- 
Middle of ditto.* 
Moll of the foft-billed birds feed 
on 
infers, and not on grain 
or feeds, and therefore ufually retire before winter ; but the fol- 
lowing, though they eat infeCts, remain with us during the 
whole year, viz. The Redbreaft, Winter Fauvette, and Wren, 
* This is the lateft fumrner bird ofpaffage. 
