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RAII NOMINA. 



Kiiiicilla : 



iS. Red-start, 



19. ChalTinch, Fiingilla: 



20. Nightingale, Luscinia : 



Middle of June : begins in 



May. 

 Beginning of June: sings 



first in February. 

 Middle of June : sings first 



in April. 



Birds that sing for a short time, and very early in the 

 spring : 



21. Missel-bird, 



22. Great 



titmouse, 

 or ox-eye. 



Ttirdus viscivoriis : January the 2nd, 1770, in 



February. Is called in 

 liampshire and Sussex 

 the storm-cock, because 

 its song is supposed to 

 forebode windy wet wea- 

 ther : is the largest sing- 

 ing bird we have. 

 In February, March, 

 April : reassumes for a 

 short time in September. 



Fringillago : 



Birds that have somewhat of a note or song, and yet 

 are hardly to be called singing birds : 



23. Golden- 

 crowned 

 wren, 



Reg7tli(s cristattis 



Partis pahistris : 



Its note as minute as its 

 person ; frequents the 

 tops of high oaks and 

 firs ; the smallest JJritish 

 bird. 

 Haunts great woods ; two 



harsh sharp notes. 

 Sings in March and on to 



September. 

 Cantat voce siriditlA lo- 

 ctistcB : from end of April 

 to August. 

 27. Grasshopper- Alauda minima voce Chirps all night, from the 



middle of April to the 

 end of July. 

 All the breeding time ; 

 from May to September. 

 Pyrrhula : 

 Emberiza alba: 



24. Marsh 



titmouse, 



25. Small Regtihis nan cris 



willow-wren, tains: 



26. Largest ditto, Diito: 



lark, 

 28. Martin, 



locuslci : 

 Hirundo agrestis . 



29. Bullfinch, 



30. Bunting, 



From the end of January 

 to July. 



All singing birds, and those that have any pretensions 



