SINGING BIRDS. 



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16. Common 

 linnet, 



f Linaria vulga 



Breeds and whistles on 

 till August ; re-as- 

 sumes 4ts note when 

 they begin to congre- 

 gate in October, and 

 again early before the 

 v flocks separate. 



.Birds that cease to be in full song, and are usually 

 silent at or before midsummer : 



17. Middle \vi\-\Regulus non crista- f Middle of June; be- 



low wren, ) tus. \ gins in April, 



18. Redstart, Ruticilla. Ditto; begins in May. 



( Beginning of June ; 

 | sings firstin February. 



{Middle of June ; sings 

 first in April. 



19. Chaffinch, Fringilla. 



20. Nightingale, Luscinia. 



21. Missel-bird. Turdus viscivorus. ( 



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

 the spring : 



January the 2d, 1770, 

 in February. Is called 

 in Hampshire and 

 Sussex the storm- 

 cock, because its song 

 is supposed to fore- 

 bode windy wet wea- 

 ther ; is the largest 

 singing bird we have. 



In February, March, 

 April ; re-assumes for 

 a short time in Sep- 

 tember. 



22. Great titmouse, 

 or ox-eye. 



j- Fringillago. 



Birds that have somewhat of a note or song, and 

 yet are hardly to be called singing birds: 



23. Golden-crown- 

 ed wren, 



> Regu< 



lus cristatus. 



' Its note as minute as 

 its person ; frequents 

 the tops of high oaks 

 and firs ; the smallest 

 British bird. 



