122 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. 
RAJI NOMINA. 
Aa - ; ee note as minute as its person; 
23. Golden-crowne : requents the tops of high oaks 
wren, J Regulus cristatus. “ee firs: the smallest British 
ird. 
24. Marsh-titmouse, Parus palustris. one a - z woods : two harsh 
25. Small willow-wren, Regulus non cristatus. tick aad March and jon ee )Gea, 
: A Cantat voce striduid locuste; 
26. Largest ditto Ditto. { from end of April to August. 
= {Alauda minima voce Chirps all night, from the middle 
27. Grasshopper-lark, V locuste. { of April to the end of July. 
ee: ; eg All the breeding time; from Ma 
28. Martin, Hirundo agrestis. { to September. y 
29. Bullfinch, Pyrrhula. 
30. Bunting, Emberiza alba. 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 
Linnzean ordo of Passeres. 
The above-mentioned birds, as they stand numerically, belong to 
the following Linnzan genera : 
L, 7, TO;27, Alauda. 8, 28, Hirundo. 
2.71, 2s Turdus. 13, 16, 19, Sringilla. 
shy Bs Oy. Le; Lost 7s : 22, 24, Parts. 
18, 20, 23, 25, 26, j Motacilla. 14, 29, Loxia. 
6, 30, Emberiza. 
Birds that sing as they fly are but few : 
Skylark. Alauda vulgaris. Rising, suspended, and falling. 
{In its descent; also sitting cn 
Titlark, Alauda pratorum. trees, and walking on the 
ground. : " 
Suspended: in hot summer nights 
Woodlark, Alauda arborea, 1 pf night long. s 
Blackbird, Merula. Sometimes from bush to bush. 
: : : Uses when singing on the wing 
White-throat, Ficedula affinis. odd jerks and gesticulations. 
Swallow, Hirundo domestica, In soft sunny weather. 
Wren, Passer troglodytes. Sometimes from bush to bush. 
Birds that breed most early in these parts : 
Raven, Corvus. Hatches in February and March. 
Song-thrush, Turdus. In March. 
Blackbird, Merula. In March. 
Rook, Cornizx frugilega. Builds the beginning of March. 
Woodlark, Alauda arborea. Hatches in April. 
Ring-dove, Palumbus terquatus. Lays the beginning of April. 
All birds that continue in full song till after Midsummer appear 
to me to breed more than once. 
