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THE NATURAL HISTORY 



[LETT. 



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

 or before midsummer : 



RAII NOMINA. 



17. Middle wil- j Regulus non cris- 

 low-wren, \ talus : 



Ruticilla : 



18. Redstart, 



19. Chaffinch, 



20. Nightingale, 



Frinyilla : 

 Luscinia : 



Middle of June : begins in April. 



Ditto : begins in May. 

 ( Beginning of June : sings first in 

 ( February. 



) Middle of June : sings first in 

 | April. 



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



January the 2nd, 1770, in Febru- 

 ary. Is called in Hampshire 

 and Sussex the storm-cock, be- 

 cause its song is supposed to 

 forebode windy, wet weather : is 

 the largest singing bird we have. 



In February, March, April : re- 



21. Missel-bird, Turdus viscivorus : 



22. Great Tit-") 



mouse, or V Fringillago : 

 Ox-eye, ) 



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 : 



Its note as minute as its person ; 

 23. Golden-crown- " 

 ed wren, 



lls cristatus : 



24. Marsh - tit- 

 mouse, 



j Parus palustris : 



frequents the tops of high oaks 

 and firs : the smallest British 

 bird. 



Haunts great woods : two harsh, 

 sharp notes. 



25. Small willow- 1 Regulus rion cris- j Sings in March, and on to Sep- 



wren, ( tatus: ( tember. 



26. Largest ditto, Ditto. \ " ^ <antat v , oce f s . trid , u ! fi ' CUSt f ; " 



( from end of April to August. 



f Alauda minima ( Chirps all night, from the middle 

 \ voce loeustce : \ of April to the end of July. 



27. Grasshopper- 

 lark, 



28. Martin, 



29. Bullfinch, 



30. Bunting, 



voce loeustce: 

 Hirundo agrestis : 



Pyrrhula : 

 Emberiza alba : 



j All the breeding time ; from May 

 \ to September. 



From the end of January to July. 



All singing birds, and those that have any pretensions to 

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

 under the Linnsean ordo of passeres. 



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

 to the following Linnaean genera : 



Alauda: 8,28. Hirundo. 



Turdus: 13,16,19. Fringilla. 



Molacilla : 22, 24. Parus. 



6, 30. Emberiza : 14, 29. Loxia. 



1,7,10,27. 

 2,11,21. 



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