BIRDS OF PASSAGE. 121 



RAII NOMINA. 



1 1. Wild-duck, Anas torquata minor : -^ 



12. Pochard, Anas fera fusca : I 



I!'. l-STta-d. I*""*" U our ,ake s and streams. 



with us in > Querquedula : \ 



Wolmer-forest ) X 



15. Crossbill, Loxia : ( These are only wanderers that appear 



16. Grosbeak, Coccothraustes ;* ^ occasionally, and are not observant 



17. Silk-tail, Garrulus bohemicus : ( of any regular migration. 



These birds, as they stand numerically, belong to the following 

 Linnaean genera: 



1, 2, 3, Turdm .- 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 



4, Corvus : Anas : \ 



5,6,7, Scolopax: 15,16, Loxia: 



8, Columba: 17. Ampelis. 



Birds that sing in the night are but few. 



Nightingale, t Luscinia: "In shadiest covert hid." MILTON. 



Woodlark, Alauda arborea : Suspended in mid air. 



Less reed-sparrow, Passer arundinaceus minor : Among reeds and willows. t 



I should now proceed to such birds as continue to sing after 

 Midsummer, but, as they are rather numerous, they would exceed 

 the bounds of this paper : besides, as this is now the season for 

 remarking on that subject, I am willing to repeat my observa- 

 tions on some birds concerning the continuation of whose song 

 I seem at present to have some doubt. 



I am, &c. 



LETTER II. To THE HON. DAINES BARRINGTON. 



DEAR SIR, Selborne, Nov. 2, 17&9 



WHEN I did myself the honour to write to you about the end of 

 last June on the subject of natural history, I sent you a list of 

 the summer-birds of passage which I have observed in this 

 neighbourhood ; and also a list of the winter-birds of passage : 

 I mentioned besides those soft-billed birds that stay with us the 

 winter through in the south of England, and those that are re- 

 markable for singing in the night. 



According to my proposal, I shall now proceed to such birds 

 (singing birds strictly so called) as continue in full song till after 

 Midsummer; and shall range them somewhat in the order in 

 which they first begin to open as the spring advances. 



* The grosbeak is a resident species, though of rare occurrence. ED. 



t Sedge- reedling (salicaria pkragmitis) . There are several other birds which sing occasionally 

 by night, though not habitually. I have ecn the skylark rise singing when nearly dark.- ED. 



