170 The Natural History of Selborne 



I 5. Less reed-sparrow, j Passer ar **<"*" 



' 1 mitinr 



May on to beginning of July. 



/Breeds and whistles on till August : 

 re-assumes its note when they 



1 6. Common linnet, Linaria vulgaris. -| begin to congregate in October, 



and again early before the flocks 

 separate. 



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

 before Midsummer : 



| 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 2; 1770, in February. Is 

 called in Hampshire and Sussex 



21. Missel-bird, Turdus visdvorus. \ f he storm-cock, because its song 



is supposed to forbode windy wet 

 weather : it is the largest singing 

 bird we have. 



