112 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. 



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

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

 but the following soft-billed birds, though insect-eaters, 

 stay with us the year round : 



Redbreast, 

 Wren, 



White-wagtail, 

 Yellow-wagtail, 

 Grey-wagtail, 



Wheat-ear, 



Whin-chat, 

 Stone-chatter, 



EAII NOMINA. 



Jtubecula. 

 Passer troglodytes. 



Hedge-sparrow, Curruca. 



Motacilla alba. 

 Motacilla flava. 

 Motacilla cinerea. 



Oenanthe. 



Oenanthe secunda. 

 Oenanthe tertia. 





f These frequent houses, and 

 haunt out-buildings in 



[ the winter : eat spiders. 



/Haunts 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 : 



RAII NOMINA, 



1. Ring-ousel, Merula torquata. 



2. Redwing, 



3. Fieldfare, 



Turdus iliacus. 

 Turdus pilaris. 



fThis is a new migration, 

 which I have lately d'is- 

 covered about Michaelmas 

 week, and again about 

 the 14th March. 

 About old Michaelmas. 

 /Though a percher by day, 

 \ roosts on the ground. 



