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19. Chaffinch, 



20. Nightingale, 



RAII NOMINA. 



Fringilla. 

 Luscinia. 



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 2 ; 1770, in Feb- 

 ruary. 



21. Missel-bird, 



Turdits 

 rus. 



viscivo- 



Is called in 

 Hampshire and Sussex 

 the storm-cock, because 

 its song is supposed 

 to forbode windy wet 

 weather: it is the largest 

 singing bird we have. 



25. Small willow- } Regulus non ens- ( Sings in March and on to 



wren, ] tatus. \ September. 



( Cantat voce stridulA lo- 



26. Larges: ditto, Ditto. < custce ; from end of April 



( to August. 



27. Grass-hopper \Alauda minima ) Chi ^, a11 ni & ht . .^om the 



lark, 



28. Martin, 



29. Bullfinch, 



30. Bunting, 



( .ocelot. \ ^4 y . Aprilt lhe 

 HirunJo vm *. \ M ^^^^ 

 Pyrrhula. 



end of January 



Emberiza alba. 

 All singing birds, and those that have any pretensions to 



