THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE loi 



RAII NOMINA. USUALLY APPEARS ABOUT 



11. Red-Start, Ruticilla. Middle of April: more 



agreeable song. 



12. Stone-curlew, Oedicnemus. End of March : loud noc- 



turnal whistle. 



13. Turtle-dove, Turtur. 



14. Gxzi'ih.o-p^&x-lzrk, A lauda minima locustae Middle of April: a small 



voce. sibilous note, till the end 



of July. 



15. Swift, Hirundo apus. About April 27, 



16. Less reed-sparrow, /'ii/j^r arundinacem A sweet polyglot, but hurry- 



minor. ing : it has the notes of 



many birds. 



17. Land-rail, Orty^metra. A loud harsh note,crex,crex. 



18. Largest willow- Regulus nun cristatus. Caniat voce stridula locustae ; 



wren, end of April, on the tops 



of high beeches. 



19. Goat-sucker, or Capiimulgus. Beginning of May ; chatters 



fern-owl, by night with a singular 



noise. 



20. Fly-catcher, Stoparola. 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 of the Linnaean system ; and are all 

 of the ordo of passeres^ save the jynx and cuculus^ which are 

 picae^ and the charadrius {oedicnemus) and rallus {prlygometrd)^ 

 which are grallae. 



These birds, as they stand numerically, belong to the 

 following Linnaean genera : 



1. Jy^''- 13- Columba. 



2, 6, 7, 9, 10, II, 16, 18. Motacilla. 17. Rallus. 

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

 8. Cuculus. 14. Jlauda. 



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. 



n ji n 7 7 f These frequent houses; and 



Redbreast, Rubecula. , ^ 1 u- • i 



Twr n 1 J . \ haunt outbuildings in the 



Wren, Passer tromd-ites. \ ■ j 



** -^ 1^ winter ; eat spiders. 



