NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. 



This assemblage of curious and amusing birds belongs to ten 

 several genera of the Linnaean system : and are all of the ordo of 

 passeres save the Jynx and C^^c^tlus, which are piece, and the 

 Charadrius (CEdicnemus) and Ralhis (Ortygometra), which are 

 grallce. 



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

 Linnaean genera : 



6, 7, 9, 10, ii, 16, 18, 



4. 5 



Jynx. 



Motadlla. 



Hirundo. 



Cuculus. 



Charadrius. 



13. Columba. 

 17. Rallus. 



19. Caprimulgus. 



14. Alanda. 



20. Musdcaj>a. 



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 : 



Red-breast, 

 Wren, 



Hedge-sparrow, 



White-wagtail, 

 Yellow- wagtail, 

 Grey-wagtail, 



Wheat-ear, 



Whin-chat, 

 Stone-chatter, 



Golden-crowned wren, 



RAII NOMINA. 



Riibecula. 

 Passer troglodytes. 



Currnca. 



Motadlla alba. 

 Motadlla jlava. 

 Motadlla cinerea. 



CEnanthe. 



CEnanthe secitnda. 

 CEnanthe tertia. 



Regulus cristatns. 



/These frequent houses ; and haunt 

 j out-buildings in the winter: eat 

 I spiders_. 



{Haunt sinks for crumbs and other 

 sweepings. 



These frequent shallow rivulets 

 near the spring heads, where 

 they never freeze : eat the 

 aurelise of Phryganea. The 

 smallest birds that walk. 

 / Some of these are to be seen with 

 t us the winter through. 



( This is the smallest British bird : 

 \ haunts the tops of tall trees ; 

 ' stays the winter through. 



