ROOM XL 
Nat, Hist, 
The third order Coraces or Ravens (Cases 7, 
and 8, lower shelves) comprises those with scan- 
sorial or climbing feet, to which belongs the 
cuckow of which Europe possesses but one spe¬ 
cies, so remarkable for neglecting its young; and 
those with ambulatory feet, among which are the 
raven , and carrion crows, the rook, the jackdaw, 
magpie, jay (with its white variety considered 
by some authors as a distinct species), the nut¬ 
cracker ; all which belong to the Linnean genus 
of Corvus the roller, To these are added the 
species of Lanius , referred by some to the pre¬ 
daceous, by others to the passerine birds: the 
great ash-coloured and red-hacked shrike and the 
wood chat» 
In the fourth order (Passeres, or Passerine 
Birds, Cases 8 and 9) are placed the starlings show¬ 
ing its change of plumage (amongst which the so¬ 
litary thrush ofMontague is included); the water - 
ouzel; the rose-red thrush, the ,missel thrush , the 
throstle, the fieldfare, the redwing, the ring-ouzel, 
the black-bird; the Bohemian chatterer; the bunt¬ 
ings ; the bit finch, with the greenfinch, hawfinch 5 
and cross-bill; the finches including the sparrows; 
the larks, together with the species of Anthus, 
separated by Bechstein from the real larks ; two 
species of fly catcher ; a considerable number of 
species of the genus Sylvia, among which are the 
reed-warbler, the nightingale, the hedge-warbler, 
(or, as it is improperly named, the hedge-spar¬ 
row), the black-cap (often named the Welsh or 
mock 
