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NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. 



14. Grasshopper-lark, 



15. Swift, 



RAH NOMINA. 



C Alauda minima locusta 

 \ voce. 



Hirundo apus. 



16. Less reed-sparrow, \ P^r arundinaceus 

 3 minor. 



Ortygometra. 



1 8. Largest willow- ) , 



> Regulus non cri status. 



17. Land-rail, 



argest 

 wren, 



19. Goat-sucker, or ) 



fern-owl, I Caprtmulgus. 



20. Fly-catcher, 



Stoparolz. 



USUALLY APPEARS ABOUT. 



Middle April : a small sibi- 

 lous note, till the end of 



July- 



About April 27th. 



A sweet polyglot, but hurry- 

 ing ; it has the notes of 

 many birds. 



A loud harsh note, crex, crex . 



Cantat voce striduld locus tee ; 

 end of April, on the tops 

 of high beeches. 



Beginning of May : chatters 

 by night with a singular 

 noise. 



May 1 2th : a very mute 

 bird ; this is the latest 

 summer bird of passage. 



This assemblage of curious and amusing birds belongs to ten 

 several genera of the Linnaean system ; and are all of the ordo of 

 passeres save the Jynx and Cuculus, which are pica, and the 

 Charadrius (CEdicnemus) and Rallus (Ortygometra\ which are 

 grallce. 



These birds, as they stand numerically, belong to the following 

 Linnsean genera : 



1, Jynx. 13. Columba. 



2, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 16, 1 8, Motadlla. 17. Rallus. 



3, 4, 5, 15, Hirundo. 19. Caprimulgus. 

 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. 



( These frequent houses ; and 

 ' haunt out-buildings in the 

 ' winter : eat spiders. 

 -, c riaunt sinks for crumbs and 



Hedge-sparrow, Curruca. ] other sweepings. 



Redbreast, 

 Wren, 



Rubeada. 

 Fassei- troglodytes. 



