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SINGING BIKDS. 



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

 spring : 



'January the 2nd, 1770, in 

 February. Is called in 

 Hampshire and Sussex the 

 storm-cock, because its 

 song is supposed to fore- 

 bode windy wet weather; 

 is the largest singing bird 

 we have. 



February, March, April ; 

 re-assumes for a short 

 time in September. 



21. Missel-bird, 



22. Great titmouse, or 

 ox-eye, 



Tu/rdus viscivorus. -< 



1 fin 



V Fringillago. < 



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

 hardly to be called singing birds : 



23. Golden -crowned 



wren, 



24. Marsh titmouse, 



25. Small willow-wren, 



27. G^shopper-lark, 



29. Bullfinch, 



30. Bunting, 



. 



j R 

 J 



Parus pa v ustris. 



Pyrrhula. 

 Emberiza alba. 



fits note as minute as its 



I person ; frequents the 



tops of high oaks and firs ; 



[_ the smallest British bird. 



{ Ha , unts , * reat W , oods 5 two 

 L harsh sharp notes. 



|8i D ^Hi^jrch and on to 



{Cantat voce stridula lo- 

 custce ; from end of April 

 to August. 



I ^Tddie'of 

 (^ end oi July. 



\ 



f 



All singing birds, and those that have any pretensions to 

 song, not only in Britain, b.ut perhaps the world through, 

 come under the Linnsean ordo ofpasseres. 



The above-mentioned birds, as they stand numerically, 

 belong to the following Linnaean genera : 



1, 7, 10, 27, 



2,11,21, 



3, 4, 5, 9, 12, 15,' 



17, 18, 20, 23, 



25, 26, 

 6,30, 



