All singing birds, and those that have any pretensions to song, 

 not only in Britain, but perhaps the world through, come under the 

 Linnasan ordo of Passeres. 



The above-mentioned birds, as they stand numerically, belong to 

 the following Linnaean genera : 



1, 7, 10, 27, 



2, n, 21, 



Alaiida. 

 Tnrdns. 



6, 30, 



Emberiza. 



8, 28, Hirnndo. 



13, 16, 19, Fringilla 

 22, 24, Pants. 



14, 29, Loxia. 



Birds that sing as they fly are but few : 



Skylark. 

 Titlark, 



Woodlark, ' 



Blackbird, 



White-throat, 



Swalbw, 

 Wren, 



Alaiida vnlgaris. 

 A la itda pratorum. 



Alaiida arborea, 

 Merida. 

 Ficeditla ajfiiiis. 



Hirnndo domestica. 

 Passer troglodytes. 



Rising, suspended, and falling. 

 fin its descent ; also sitting < n 

 j trees, and walking on the 

 I ground. 



i Suspended : in hot summer nights 

 \ all night long. 



Sometimes from bush to bush. 

 (Uses when singing on the wing 

 I odd jerks and gesticulations. 



In soft sunny weather. 



Sometimes from bush to bush. 



Birds that breed most early in these parts : 



Raven, 



Song-thrush, 



Blackbird, 



Rook, 



Woodlark, 



Ring-dove, 



Connts. 



Tiirilns. 



Mernla. 



Corn ix frngilega. 



Alaiida arborea. 



Paliunbiis tcrqnatus. 



Hatches in February and March. 



In March. 



In March 



Builds the beginning ot March. 



Hatches in April. 



Lays the beginning of April. 



All birds that continue in full song till after Midsummer appear 

 to me to breed more than once. 



