OF SELBORNE. 147° 
This assemblage of curious and amusing birds 
_ belongs to ten several genera of the Linnean sys. 
tem, and are all of the ordo passeres save the jynx 
and cuculus, which are pice, and the charadrius 
(edicnemus) and rallus (ortygometra), which are 
gralle. 
These birds, as they stand numerically, belong 
to the Linnean genera: 
a Ye SURD 13, Columba. 
2, 6, 7, 9, 10, 1; 16, 18, Motacilla, 17, Rallus. 
ay 4%, 5, 15 . . Mirundo. 19, Caprimulgus. 
ea ass. er wai « CMCHINSS 14, Alauda. 
Men 6 3 . Charadrius. 20, Muscicapa. 
Most soft-billed birds live on insects, and not on 
grain and seeds, and therefore at the end of sum. 
mer they retire; but the following soft-billed birds, 
though insect-eaters, stay with us the year round: 
Raii Nomina. 
Redbreast . . Rubecula 
Wren. , . . Passer troglodytes 
( These frequent houses 
and haunt outbuildings 
in the winter ; eat spl- 
ders. 
Haunt sinks for crumbs 
and other sweepings. 
These frequent shallow 
rivulets, near the spring 
heads, where they nev- 
er freeze: eat the au- 
relie of Phryganea.— 
The smallest birds that 
walk. 
Some of these are to be 
seen with us the winter 
through. 
Hedge-sparrow. Curruca .. 
White wagtail . Motacilla alba 
Yellow wagtail Motacilla flava 
Gray wagtail . Motacilla cinerea . 
Wheatear . . Cinanthe . . 
Whinchat . . C£nanthe secunda. 
Stone-chatter . Cinanthe tertia. 
This is the smallest Brit- 
ish bird: haunts the 
tops of tall trees: stays 
the winter through. 
Golden-crowned 
ie t Regulus cristatus 
