NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE 3 



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, 



RAII NOMINA. 



Rubecula. 

 Passer troglodytes. 



Curruca. 



Motacilla alba. 1 

 Motacilla flava. 2 

 Motacilla cinerea. 



(Enanthe* 



(Enanthe secunda. 

 CEnanthe tertia. 



Golden-crowned wren, Regulus cristatus. 



These frequent houses ; and haunt 

 out-buildings in the winter : eat 

 , 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 

 us the winter through. 



This is the smallest British bird : 

 haunts the tops of tall trees ; 

 stays the winter through. 



A LIST of the WINTER BIRDS of PASSAGE round this neighbourhood 

 ranged somewhat in the order in which they appear. 



x. Ring-ousel, 



2. Redwing, 



3. Fieldfare, 



4. Royston-crow, 



5. Woodcock, 



6. Snipe, 



7. Jack-snipe, 



8. Wood-pigeon, 



9. Wild-swan, 

 10. Wild-goose, 



1 The Pied Wagtail (Motacilla lugubris) is our resident bird. The true White 

 Wagtail (M. alba) is a summer migrant or occasional visitant. [R. B. S.] 



2 The Yellow, or Ray's, Wagtail (M. campestris) does not spend the winter in 

 Britain. See vol. i. p. 52. [R. B. S.] 



3 Stonechats winter in England, but Wheatears and Whinchats do not do 

 so. See vol. i. p. 52. [R. B. S.] 



4 A migrant in spring and autumn. Hardly to be considered a winter bird 

 of passage. [R. B. S.] 



5 Columba anas, the Stock-Dove. See Letter IX, infra. [R. B. S.] 



