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SINaiKG BIRDS. 



Birds that sing for a short time, and very early in tho 

 spring : — 



'January the 2nd, 1770, in 

 February. Is called in 

 Hampshire and Sussex the 

 storm-cock, because its 

 song is supposed to fore- 

 bode windy wet weather; 

 is the largest singing bird 

 we have. 



' In February, March, April ; 

 re-assumes for a short 

 time in September. 



21 Missel-bird, 



Twrdus viscivorus. 



22. 



Great titmouse, or "I „ . .„ 

 ox-eye, fFnngiUago. 



23. Golden 

 wren, 



crowned 



■Regulus cristatus. 



Birds that have somewhat of a note or song, and yet are 

 hardly to be called singing birds : — 



fits note as minute as its 

 J person ; frequents the 



I tops of high oaks and firs ; 



[^ the smallest British bird. 

 J" Haunts great woods ; two 

 \ harsh sharp notes. 



25. Small willow-wren, P'^^^^'^^^^^'^''^"- l^'T '"^ .^^''^ ^"^ ""^ ^ 

 J tus. I September. 



f Cantat voce stridula lo- 



Ditto. 



24. Marsh titmouse, Parus pavustris. 



26. Largest ditto, 



27. Grasshopper-lark, 



28. Martin, 



29. Bullfinch, 



30. Bunting, 



'\Alauda minima 

 J voce locustce. 



Hirundo agreslis. 

 Pyrrhula. 

 Emberiza alba. 



< custce; from end of April 

 [ to August. 



{Chirps all night, from the 

 middle of April to the 

 end of July. 

 All the breeding time ; from 

 May to September. 



r From the end of January 

 \ to July. 



All singing birds, and those that have any pretensions to 

 song, not only in Britain, but perhaps the world through, 

 come under the Linnsean ordo oipasseres. 



The above-mentioned birds, as they stand numerically, 

 belong to the following Linnsean genera : — 



