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The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White
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Cuckoo, Cuculus
canorus.
Nightingale, Motacilla
luscinia.
Black-cap, Motacilla
atricapilla.
White-throat, Motacilla
sylvia.
Middle willow-wren, Motacilla
trochilus.
Swift, Hirundo apus.
Stone curlew? Charadrius
oedicnemus?
Turtle-dove? Turtur
aldrovandi?
Grasshopper-lark, Alauda trivialis.
Landrail, Rallus crex.
Largest willow-wren, Motacilla
trochilus.
Redstart, Motacilla
phoenicurus.
Goat-sucker, or fern-owl, Caprimulgus
europaeus.
Fly-catcher, Muscicapa
grisola.

My countrymen talk much of a bird that makes a clatter with its
bill against a dead bough, or some old pales, calling it a jar-bird. I
procured one to be shot in the very fact; it proved to be the sitta
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