-lark. _Alauda minima Middle April: a small
locustae voce_ sibilous note, till the
end of July.
15. Swift. _Hirundo apus_. About April 27th.
16. Less reed-sparrow. _Passer A sweet polyglot, but
arundinaceus hurrying; it has the
minor_. notes of many birds.
17. Land-rail. _Ortygometra_. A loud, harsh
note--crex, crex.
18. Largest willow _Regulus non _Cantat voce stridula
wren. cristatus_. locustae_; end of April,
on the tops of high
beeches.
19. Goat-sucker, or _Caprimulgus_. Beginning of May:
fern-owl. chatters by night with a
singular noise.
20. Fly-catcher. _Stoparola_. May 12th: a very mute
bird: this is the latest
summer bird of passage.

This assemblage of curious and amusing birds belongs to ten several
genera of the Linnaean system, and are all of the _ordo_ of _passeres_
save the _Jynx_ and _Cuculus_, which are _picae_, and the _Charadrius_
(_OEdicnemus_) and _Rallus_ (_Ortygometra_), which are _grallae_.

These birds, as they stand numerically, belong to the following Linnaean
genera:--

1, _Jynx_. 13. _Columba_.
2,6,7,9,10,11,16,18, _Motacilla_. 17. _Rallus_.
3,4,5,15, _Hirundo_. 19. _Caprimulgus_.
8, _Cuculus_. 14. _Alauda_.
12, _Charadrius_. 20. _Muscicapa_.

Most soft-billed birds live on insects, and not on grain and seeds, and
therefore at the end of summer they retire: but the following soft-billed
birds, though insect-eaters, stay with us the year round:--

RAII NOMINA.
Redbreast, Wren, _Rubecula. Passer These frequent houses,
troglodytes_. and haunt out-