skulking in the thickest part of a bush; and will sing at a yard
distance, provided it be concealed. I was obliged to get a person to
go on the other side of the hedge where it haunted; and then it
would run, creeping like a mouse, before us for a hundred yards
together, through the bottom of the thorns; yet it would not come
into fair sight: but in a morning early, and when undisturbed, it
sings on the top of a twig, gaping and shivering with its wings. Mr.
Ray himself had no knowledge of this bird, but received his
account from Mr. Johnson, who apparently confounds it with the
reguli non cristati, from which it is very distinct. See Ray's
Philosophical Letters, p. 108.

The fly-catcher (stoparola) has not yet appeared: it usually breeds
in my vine. The redstart begins to sing: its note is short and
imperfect, but is continued till about the middle of June. The
willow-wrens (the smaller sort) are horrid pests in a garden,
destroying the pease, cherries, currants, etc., and are so tame that a
gun will not scare them.

A List of the summer birds of passage discovered in this
neighbourhood, ranged somewhat in the order in which they
appear:

Smallest willow-wren, Linnaei Nomina Motacilla
trochilus.
Wryneck, Lynx torquilla.
House-swallow, Hirundo
rustica.
Martin, Hirundo urbica.
Sand-martin, Hirundo riparia