NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE 



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8, 

 12, 



Cuculus. 

 Charadrius. 



14. Alauda. 

 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 : 



Redbreast, 

 Wren, 



Hedge-sparrow, 



White- wagtail, 

 Yellow-wagtail, 

 Gray-wagtail, 



Wheat-ear, 



Whin-chat, 

 Stone-chatter, 



RAII NOMINA 



Rnbecula. 

 Passer troglodytes. 



Curruca. 



Motacilla alba. 

 Motacilla flava. 

 Motacilla cinerea. 



CEnanthe. 



CEnanthe secunda. 

 CEnanthe tertia. 



Golden-crowned wren, Regulus cristatus. 



f These frequent houses ; and 

 4 haunt out-buildings in the 

 ( winter: eat spiders. 

 j Haunt sinks for crumbs and 

 ( other sweepings. 

 r These frequent shallow 

 rivulets near the spring 

 heads, where they never 

 freeze : eat the aureliae of 

 Phryganea. The small- 

 est birds that walk. 

 Some of these are to be 

 seen with us the winter 

 through. 



r This is the smallest British 

 bird : haunts the tops of 

 ] tall trees ; stays the win- 

 l ter through. 



A LIST OF THE WINTER BIRDS OF PASSAGE ROUND THIS 



NEIGHBORHOOD, RANGED SOMEWHAT IN THE ORDER IN 

 WHICH THEY APPEAR: 



1 . Ring-ousel, 



2. Redwing, 



3. Fieldfare, 



4. Royston-crow, 



5. Woodcock, 



RAII NOMINA 



Merula torquata, 



Turdus iliacus. 

 Turdus pilaris. 

 Cor nix cinerea. 

 Scolopax. 



This is a new migration, 

 which I have lately dis- 

 covered about Michael- 

 mas week, and again 

 about the I4th March. 



About old Michaelmas. 



< Though a percher by day, 

 ( roosts on the ground. 



Most frequent on downs. 



< Appears about old Michael- 



mas. 



