SINGING BIRDS. 



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15. Less 

 sparro 



reed-\ 

 ow, j 



Passer arundina- 

 ceus minor. 



16. Common 

 linnet, 



- Linaria vulgaris. 



May, on to beginning 

 of July. 



Breeds and whistles 

 on till August : 

 re-assumes its note 

 when they begin to 

 congregate in Oc- 

 tober, and again 

 early before the 

 flocks separate. 



Birds that cease to be in full song, and are 

 usually silent at or before Midsummer : 



17. Middle w\\-\ Regulus non cm- /Middle of June; be- 



low-wren. j tatus. 



18. Red-start, Ruticilla. 



19. Chaffinch, Fringilla. 



20. Nightingale, Lucsinia. 



\ gins in April. 

 Do. ; begins in May. 



Beginning of June ; 

 sings first in Fe- 

 bruary. 



( Middle of June ; sings 

 ( first in April. 



21. Missel-bird, 



Birds that sing for a short time, and very early 

 in the spring : 



! January the 2d, 1770; 

 in February. Is 

 called in Hampshire 

 and Sussex the 

 stormcock, because 

 its song is supposed 

 to forbode windy 

 wet weather ; is the 

 largest singing bird 

 we have. 



In February, March, 

 April ; re-assumes 

 for a short time in 

 September. 



Birds that have somewhat of a note or song, 

 and yet are hardly to be called singing birds : 



22. Great tit- 

 mouse, or ox 

 eye, 



itO < 



>x- > Fritigillago. J 



