NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE 



13. Turtle-dove, 



14. Grasshopper-lark, { 



15. Swift, 



16. Less reed-sparrow, { 



17. Land-rail, 



18. Largest willow- wren, 



19. Goatsucker, or fern- ) 



owl, } 



20. Fly-catcher, 



Turtur. 



Al minima locust<s 



Hirundo apus. 



Ortygometra. 



Regulus non cristatus.^ 



. . . 

 Capnmulgus. 



Stoparola. 



USUALLY APPEARS ABOUT 

 April 13. 

 Ditto. 



Ditto : a sweet wild note. 

 Beginning of April. 

 Middle of April. 

 Ditto : a sweet plaintive note. 

 Ditto ; mean note ; sings on till 



September. 

 Middle of April : more agreeable 



song. 

 End of March : loud nocturnal 



whistle. 



Middle April: a small sibilous 

 note, till the end of July. 



About April 27. 



A sweet polyglot, but hurrying : it 

 has the notes of many birds. 



A loud harsh note, crex, crex. 

 ( Cantat voce stridula locustez ; end 



< of April, on the tops of high 

 ( beeches. 



( Beginning of May : chatters by 

 \ night with a singular noise. 

 ( May 12 : a very mute bird ; this 



< is the latest summer bird of 

 ( passage. 



This assemblage of curious and amusing birds belongs to 

 ten several genera of the Linncean system : and are all of 

 the ordo of passeres save the jynx and cuculus, which are 

 piece, and the charadrius (cedicnemus) and rallus (ortygo- 

 metra), which are grallce. 



These birds, as they stand numerically, belong to the 

 following Linncean genera : 



i, 



2, 6, 7, 9, 10, ii, 16, 18, 



3, 4, 5, 15. 

 8, 



12, 



Motacilla. 

 Hirundo. 

 Cuculus. 

 Charadrius. 



13, Columba. 

 17, Rallus. 



19, Caprimulgus. 



14, Alauda. 



20, Muscicapa. 



Most soft-billed birds live on insects, and not on grain 

 and seeds ; and therefore at the end of summer they retire : 



1 The Willow Warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus). See vol. i. p. 79. [R. B. S.] 



2 The Grasshopper Warbler (Locustella ncevia). See vol. i. p. 63. [R. B. S.] 



3 The Sedge Warbler (Acrocephalus phragmitis}. In the original MS. letter 

 are additional remarks : "A perpetual songster night and day; it has the notes 

 of several birds ; and haunts about waters. This bird is totally omitted in the 

 Brit. Zoology." Cf. vol. i. pp. 104-108. [R. B. S.] 



4 The Wood Warbler (Phylloscopus sibilator). See vol. i. p. 79. [R. B. S.] 



