AUuda 



Alauda pratorum. 



Alauda arborea. 

 Merula. 



Ficedulce affinis. 

 ffirundo domestica. 



SINGINtt BIBDS. 



Birds that sing as they fly are but few : 

 Skylark, 

 Titlark, 



"Woodlark, 

 Blackbird, 



White throat, 



Swallow, 

 Wren, 



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f Rising, suspended, and 

 \ falling. 



In its descent ; also sitting 

 on trees, and walking on 

 the ground. 



Suspended ; in hot summer 

 nights all night long. 



Sometimes from bush to 

 bush. 



Uses, when singing on the 

 wing, odd jerks and ges- 

 ticulations. 



In soft sunny weather. 



Passer troglodytes. [ S ^ G * fr m bush t0 



Birds that breed most early in these parts : 



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Raven, 



Song-thrush, 

 Blackbird, 



Rook, 



Woodlark, 



Ringdove, 



n 

 Corvus. 



Turdus. 

 Merula. 



Comix frngilega. 

 Alauda arborea. 



Hatches in February and 

 March 



In March. 

 In March. 



beginning f 





Hatches in April. 

 { Lays the beginning of April. 



All birds that continue in full song till after midsummer, 

 appear to me to breed more than once. 



Most kinds of birds seem to me to be wild and shy, some- 

 what in proportion to their bulk : I mean in tin's island, 

 where they are much pursued and annoyed ; but in Ascen- 

 sion Island, and many other desolate places, mariners have 

 found fowls so unacquainted with a human figure, that they 

 would stand still to be taken, as is the case with boobies, 

 &c. As an example of what is advanced, I remark that the 

 golden-crested wren, (the smallest British bird,) will stand 

 unconcerned till you come within three or four yards of it, 

 while the bustard (otis,') the largest British land fowl, does 

 not care to admit a person within so many furlongs. 



