APPENDIX. 



BIRDS THAT SING WHILST FLYING. 



Skylark, Woodlark, Meadow Pipit, Tree Pipit, Blackbird, 

 VVhitethroat, Swallow, Cuckoo. 



' Gilbert White gives the Wren also. I have, however, never 

 heard it sing whilst on the wing. 



BIRDS THAT SING AT NIGHT. 



Sedge Warbler (Irish Nightingale), Grasshopper Warbler, 

 Nightjar. 



The Song Thrush and Robin often sing at night. 



Mr. Arthur Irwin heard a Thrush in full song at 1.30 a,m., at 

 Newtownmountkennedy, on March 22, 1866. 



BIRDS WHOSE FEMALES SOMETIMES SING. 



The most noted of these is undoubtedly the Skylark, although 

 Burns was somewhat at sea when he spoke of her as absent all day 

 from her nest, on a singing tour 



" The lav'rock in the morning she '11 rise frae her nest, 

 And mount to the air wi' the dew upon her breast ; 

 And wi' the merry ploughman she '11 whistle and sing, 

 And at night she '11 return to her nest back agin." 



The hen Meadow Pipit is also occasionally a songster. 



This Dr. Kinahan has proved by dissection, and in one case, at 

 all events, he has shown, by a similar process, that a hen Starling 

 possessed like vocal powers to the male. 



I am not aware that the females of any other birds are simi- 

 larly gifted. 



