OF SELBORNE 



99 



RAII NOMINA. 



25. Small willow-wren,i Regulus non cristatus : { 



26. Largest ditto, 2 



27. Grasshopper-lark, 



28. Martin, 



29. Bullfinch, 



30. Bunting, 



Ditto : 



Hirundo agrestis : 



$ Cantat voce stridula locustee ; 

 from end of April to August. 



<&?"'" ""fSA 3& oTe ^1 

 i of /*/y. 



/All the breeding time; from 

 I May to September. 



Pyrrhula : 



Emberiza alba : { ^ ^ Cnd f Januar y tO 



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

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

 the Unnaean ordo of passeres. 



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

 to the following Linncean genera. 



1, 7. io, 27. 



2, II, 21. 



3, 4, 5, 9, 12, 15, ) 

 17, 18, 20, 23, 25, 26. / 

 6, 30. 



Alauda : 

 Turdus : 



Motacilla : 

 Emberiza : 



8, 28. 



13, 16, 19. 



22. 24. 



14, 29. 



Hirundo. 

 Fringilla. 



Parus. 

 Loxia. 



Birds that sing as they fly are but few. 



Skylark, 

 Titlark, 



Woodlark, 

 Blackbird, 

 White-throat, 



Swallow, 

 Wren, 



Alauda vulgaris : 

 Alauda pratorum : 



Alauda arborea : 

 Merula : 

 Ficedula affinis : 



Hirundo domestica : 

 Passer troglodytes : 



Rising, suspended, and falling, 

 fin it's descent ; also sitting on 

 trees, and walking on the 

 t ground. 



/ Suspended ; in hot summer 

 \ nights all night long. 



Sometimes from bush to bush. 

 ( Uses when singing on the wing 

 \ 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, 



Corvus : 



Turdus : 



Merula : 



Cornix frugilega : 



Alauda arborea : 



Palumbus torquatus , 



( Hatches in February and 

 \ March. 



In March. 



In March. 



Builds the beginning of March. 



Hatches in April. 



Lays the beginning of April. 3 



1 [The chiffchaff (P. rufus, Bechst.).] 



2 [The wood- wren (P. sibilatrix, Bechst.).] 



3 [" To this list might have been added the robin, since it not unfrequently nests 

 January during mild winters." Harting.~\ 



