Birds that cease to be in full song, and are usually 

 silent at or before midsummer: — 



RAII NOMINA. 



17. Middle wiWov:- ( /^egu/us non rr/j- f Middle of June: begins in 



wren, 



18. Redstart, 



19. Chaffinch, 



20. Nightingale, 



\ tatus. 

 Ruticilla. 



Fj'ingilla. 

 Luscinia. 



April. 

 Ditto : begins in May. 

 J 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 : — 



f January the 2nd, 1770, in Feb- 

 ruary. Is called in Hampshire 

 and Sussex the storm-cock, 



21. Missel-bird, Turdus viuivorus.\ because its song is supposed 



to forbode windy, wet weath- 

 er : is the largest singing bird 

 we have. 



22. Great Tit- 1 f In February, March, April : re- 



mouse, or \ Fringillago. \ assumes for a short time in 



Ox-eye, J ^ September. 



Birds that have somewhat of a note or song, and 

 yet are hardly to be called singing birds : — 



23. Golden-crown- 



ed wren, 



24. Marsh-tit- 



mouse, 



25. Small willow- 



wren. 



26. Largest ditto, Ditto. 



c Its note as minute as its per- 

 I son : frequents the tops of 

 I high oaks and firs : the small- 

 [ est British bird. 

 f Haunts great woods : two 

 [ harsh, sharp notes. 



1 Regtilus non cris- j Sings in March, and on to Sep- 



J tatus. 1 tember. 



I " Cantat voce stridula locustae ;" 

 [ from end of April to August. 



Regulus cristatus. 



Parus palustris. 



27. Grasshopper- 

 lark, 



Alauda minima f Chirps all night, from the middle 

 [^ of April to the end of July. 



voce locustce. 



