118 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. 
11. Red-start, 
12. Stone-curlew, 
13. Turtle-dove, 
14 
15. Swift, 
16. Less reed-sparrow, 
Grasshopper-lark, 
17. Land-rail, 
18. Largest willow- 
wren, 
19. Goatsucker, or 
fern-owl, 
20. Fly-catcher, 
RAII NOMINA. 
Ruticilla. 
\ dicnenius. 
Turtur. 
As lauda neintnea locuste 
7008. 
Hirundo apus. 
Passer arundinacenus 
M1LiOr. 
Ortygometra. 
\ Regulus non cristatus. } 
\Caprimulgus. 
Stoparola. 
USUALLY APPEARS ABOUT 
Middle of April: more agreeable 
song. 
{End of March: loud nocturnal 
~% whistle. 
{ Middle April: a small sibilous 
note, till the end of July. 
April 27. 
1% sweet polyglot, but hurrying: it 
has the notes of many birds. 
A loud harsh note, crex, crex. 
Cantat voce stridulad locuste; end 
of April, on the tops of high 
beeches. 
j Beginning of May: chatters by 
UL night with a singular noise. 
May 12: a very mute bird; this 
is the latest summer bird of 
passage. 
This assemblage of curious and amusing birds belongs to ten 
several genera 6f the Linnzean system: and are all of the ordo of 
passeres save the /ynx and Cuculus, which are pice, and the 
Charadrius (Gedicnemus) and Rallus (Ortygometra), which are 
gralle. 
These birds, as they stand numerically, belong to the following 
Linnean genera :— 
¥; Syn. 13. Columba. 
2, 6.7, 9, 10, 11, 16,18, Motacilla. 17. Rallus. 
By oss icy Flirundo. 19. Caprimuleus. 
8, Cuculus. 14. Alauda. 
12, Charadrius. 20. Muscicapa. 
Most soft-billed birds live on insects, and not on grain and 
seeds ; and therefore at the end of summer they retire: but the 
following soft-billed birds, though insect-eaters, stay with us the 
year round: 
RAII NOMINA. 
Red-breast Rahecula: These frequent houses ; and haunt 
Wren , Passer troglodytes out-buildings in the winter: eat 
é ; t spiders. 
Haunt sinks for crumbs and other 
Hedge-sparrow, Curruca. 
sweepings. 
These frequent shallow rivulets 
near the spring heads, where 
they never freeze: eat the 
aureliz of Phryganea. The 
smallest birds that walk. 
§ Some of these are to be seen with 
us the winter through. 
Motacilla alba. 
Motacilla flava. 
Motactlla cinerea. 
White-wagtail, 
Yellow-wagtail, 
Grey-wagtail, 
Cunanthe. 
Gnanthe secunda. 
CGnanthe tertia. 
Wheat-ear, 
Whin-chat, 
Stone-chatter, 
Regulus cristatus. 
Golden-crowned wren, haunts the tops of tall trees; 
Ye is the smallest British bird: 
stays the winter through. 
