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.