I 3 4 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. 



Birds that sing for a short time, and very early in the. spring : 



21. Missel-bird. 



22. Great titmouse 

 or ox-eye 



RAII NOMINA. 



Turdus viscivorus. 



' r Fringillago. 



January 2nd, 17 70, in February, 

 Is called in Hampshire and 

 Sussex the storm-cock, be- 

 cause its song is supposed to 

 forbode windy wet weather ; 

 it is the largest singing bird 

 we have. 



In February, March, April : 

 re-assumes for a short time 

 in September. 



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



to be called singing birds : 



fits note as minute as its per- 

 ] son ; frequents the tops oi 



Golden-crowned 



Regulus cristatus. 



24. Marsh-titmouse, Parus pdustris. 



25. Small willow-wren, Regtthis non cristatus. 



26. Largest ditto, Ditto. 



27. Grasshopper-lark, 



Ala^tda minima voce 

 locustce. 



28. Martin, 



29. Bullfinch, 



30. Bunting, 



Hirundo agrestis. 

 pyrrhula. 

 Emberiza alba. 



J high oaks and firs ; the 

 (^ smallest British bird. 

 f Haunts great woods : two harsh 

 \ sharp notes. 



( Sings in March, and on to Sep- 

 ( tember. 



c Cantat voce stridnld locust<z ; 

 \ from end of April to August. 

 Chirps all night, from the mid- 

 dle of April to the end of 



July. 



5 All the breeding time ; from 

 \ May to September. 



f From the end of January to 



i July. 



1 All singing birds, and those that have any pretensions to song, 

 not only in Britain, but perhaps the world through, come under 

 the Linnaean or do of Passer es. 



The above-mentioned birds, as they stand numerically, belong 

 to the following Linnaean genera : 



1, 7, 10, 27, Alauda. 8, 28, 



2, II, 21, Turdtis. 13, 16, 19, 



3,4,5,9, 12, 15, 17, \ Molaci iia. 



18, 20, 23, 25, 26, 3 



6, 30, Emberiza. 



22, 24, 



*4> 29, 



Hirundo. 

 Fringilla. 

 Parus. 

 Loxia. 



