OF SELBORNE. 128 
Titlarks* not only sing sweetly as they sit on 
trees, but also as they play and toy about on the 
wing, and particularly while they are descending, 
and sometimes as they stand on the ground. 
Adanson’sf testimony seems to me to be a very 
poor evidence that European swallows migrate 
during our winter to Senegal; he does not talk at 
all like an ornithologist, and probably saw only the 
swallows of that country, which I know build within 
Governor O’Hara’s hall against the roof. Had he 
known European swallows, would he not have men- 
tioned the species ? 
The house-swallow washes by dropping into the 
water as it flies: this species appears commonly 
about a week before the house-martin, and about 
ten o1 twelve days before the swift. 
In 1772 there were young house-martinst in their 
nest till October the 23d. 
The swift§ appears about ten or twelve days later 
than the house-swallow, viz., about the 24th or 
26th of April. 
Whinchats and stone-chatters|| stay with us the 
whole year. 
Some wheatears? continue with us the winter 
through. 
Wagtails, all sorts, remain with us all the winter. 
Bulfinches,** when fed on hempseed, often be- 
come wholly black. 
We have vast flocks of female chaffinchesff all 
the winter, with hardly any males among them. 
When you say that in summer-time the cock 
* British Zoology, vol. ii., p. 237. + P. 242. t P. 244, 
§ P. 245. | P. 270, 971 @ P.269. **P.300. 
tt P. 306. 
