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, 



Hedge-sparrow, 



White-wagtail, 

 Yellow-wagtail, 

 Grey-wagtail, 



Wheat-ear, 



Whin-chat, 

 Stone-chatter, 



Golden-crowned 

 wren. 



RAII NOMINA. 



nubecula. 

 Fasser troglodytes. 



Curruca. 



Motacilla alba. 

 Motacilla flava. 

 Motacilla cinerea. 



Oenanthe. 



Oenanthe sccunda. 

 Oenanthe tertia. 



Regulus cristatus. 



( 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 aureliis 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 : — 



1. Ring-ousel, 



2. Redwing, 



3. Fieldfare, 



EAII NOMINA. 



Merula torquata. 



2 Urdus illacus. 

 Turdus ^pilaris. 



This is a new migration, 

 which I have lately dis- 

 covered about Michaelmas 

 week, and again about 

 the 14th March. 

 About old Michaelmas. 

 J Though a percher by day, 

 \ roosts on the ground. 



