White-wagtail,
Motacilla alba:
Yellow-wagtail,
Motacilla flava:
Grey-wagtail,
Motacilla cinerea:
These frequent shallow rivulets near the spring heads, where they
never freeze: eat the aureliae of Phryganea. The smallest birds that
walk.
Wheat-ear,
Oenanthe:
Some of these are to be seen with us the winter through.
Whin-chat,
OEnanthe secunda:
Stone-chatter,
OEnanthe tertia:
Golden-crowned wren,
Regulus cristatus:
This is the smallest British bird: haunts the tops of tall trees; stays
the winter through.
A List of the Winter Birds of Passage round this neighbourhood,
ranged somewhat in the order in which they appear:
1. Ring-ousel,
Raii nomina: Merula torquata:
This is a new migration which I have lately discovered about
Michaelmas week, and again about the fourteenth of March.
2. Redwing,
Turdus iliacus:
About Michaelmas.
3. Fieldfare,
Turdus pilaris,
Though a percher by day, roosts on the ground.
4. Royston-crew,
Cornix cinerea:
Most frequent on downs.
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