6o8 APPENDIX. 



is its continuance of fong, without a paufe, which 

 1 have obferved ibmetimes not to be lefs than 

 twenty feconds. Whenever refpiration, Iiowever, 

 became necefTary, it was taken with as much judg- 

 ment as by an opera finger. 



The ikylark again, in this particular, is only fe- 

 cond to the nightingale "*. 



* I fliall here infert a table, by which the comparative 

 merit of the Britijb finging birds may be examined, the idea 

 of which I have borrowed from Monf. de Piles , in his Cours de 

 Peinturc par Principes. I lhall not be furprized, however, 

 if, as he fuggefts, many may difagree with me about parti- 

 cular birds, as he fuppofes they will do with him, concerning 

 the merits of painters 



As I have five columns inftead of the four which M. de 

 Piles ufes, I make 20 the point of abfolute perfection, inftead 

 of 16, which is his ftandard. 



Nightingale - 

 Skylark ----- 



Woodlark - - 



Titlark 



Linnet ----- 



Goldfinch - - 



Chaffinch - - - _ 

 Greenfinch - - - - 

 Hedge-fparrow - - - 

 Aberdavine (or Sifkin) 



Redpoll 



Thrum - - - - - 

 Blackbird - - - - 

 Robin - - 



Wren - - 



Recd-fparrow - - - 

 Black-cap, or theNorfoll 

 Mock nightingale * 



Mcllow- 

 nefs of 

 tone. 



l 9 



4 

 18 

 12 

 12 



4 

 4 

 4 

 6 

 2 

 o 

 4 

 4 

 6 

 o 

 o 



Execu- 

 tion. 



* 2>n7, Z50/, p. 5t6z. 



19 



18 



8 



12 



18 



12 



8 



6 



4 



4 



4 



4 



2 



12 



4 

 2 



And 



