17. Land-rail, Ortygometra: A loud harsh note, crex, crex.
18. Largest willow-wren, Regulus non cristatus: Cantat voce stridula locustae; end of April, on the tops of high beeches.
19. Goat-sucker, or fern-owl, Caprimulgus: Beginning of May; chatters by night with a singular noise.
20. Fly-catcher, Stoparola: May 12. 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.
2, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 16, 18. Motacilla.
3, 4, 5, 15. Hirundo.
8. Cuculus.