116 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. 



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

 spring : — 



21. Missel-bird, 



22. Great titmouse^ 

 or ox-eye, 



RAII NOMINA. 



Turdus viscivorus. 



, January 

 ' February. 



. rin 



vFringillago. -| 



2nd, 1770, in 

 Is called in 

 Hampshire and Sussex 

 the storm -cock, because 

 its song is supposed to for- 

 bode windy wet weather ; 

 it is the largest singing 

 bird we have. 

 February,March, April; 

 reassumes for a short 

 time in September. 



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

 hardly to be called singing birds : — 



23. Golden-crown- 

 ed wren. 



|- Regul 



us cristatus. 



24. Marsh-titmouse Parus palustris. -{ 



25. Small willow- Eegulus non cris- j 



wren, tatus, \ 



26. Largest ditto 



27. Grasshopper- 

 lark, 



28. Martin, 



29. Bullfinch, 



30. Bunting, 



Ditto, A 



) Alavda minima voce} 



j loCUStCB I 



Eirundo agrestis. < 



Pyrrhula. r 



Emberiza alba. -j 



Its note as minute as its 



person ; frequents the 



tops of high oaks and firs ; 



the smallest British bird. 

 Haunts great woods ; two 



harsh sharp notes. 

 Sings in March, and on to 



September. 

 Cantat vocestriduld locustas ; 



from end of April to 



August. 

 Chirps all night, from the 



middle of April to the 



end of July. 

 All the breeding time ; from 



May to September. 



From the end of January to 

 July. 



All singing birds, and those that have any pretensions to 

 song, not only in Britain, but perhaps the world through, 

 come under the Linnsean ordo of passeres. 



