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serial or climbing feet, to which belongs the room xi. 
cuckow of which Europe possesses but one spe- Nat. Hist. 
cies, so remarkable for neglecting its young; and 
those with ambulatory feet, among which are the 
raven , and carrion crows , the rook, th e 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-colourecl and red-hacked shrike and the 
wood-chat 
In the fourth order (Passeres, or Passerine 
Birds, Cases 8 and 9) are placed the starling , show- 
ingits change of plumage (amongst which the so¬ 
litary thrush of Montague is included); the water- 
ouzel; the rose-red thrush, the missel thrush, the 
throstle, the fieldfare, the redwings the ring-ouzel, 
the black-bird; the Bohemian chatterer; the bunt¬ 
ings; the bulfinch , with the greenfinch^ hawfinch, 
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 nightingale'), the Dartford warbler; the 
stone and whin chats ; the gold-crest , the smallest 
of 
