The illustrations, from designs by Thomas Bewick, will, it is conceived, add considerably to the attractiveness of the volume, and will enable the reader to dispense with particular descriptions of the species, which it might be otherwise desirable to furnish. These may be found, moreover, in other works devoted to British Ornithology.

JAMES EDMUND HARTING.

CONTENTS.

HE Wheatear

THE

The Whinchat

The Stonechat .

The Wood Warbler

The Willow Warbler

The Chiff-chaff

The Nightingale

The Blackcap

The Orphean Warbler

The Garden Warbler

The Common Whitethroat

The Lesser Whitethroat

The Redstart

The Sedge Warbler.

The Reed Warbler

THE WHEATEAR.

NE of the earliest of our feathered visitors

to arrive is the Wheatear, which comes to us as a rule in the second week of March; and, although individuals have been seen and procured occasionally at a much earlier date, there is reason to believe that the spring migration does not set in before this, and that the birds met with previously are such as have wintered in this country; for it has been well ascertained that the Wheatear, like the

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