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NATURAL HISTORY 



Birds that have somewhat of a note or 

 song, and yet are hardly to be called sing- 

 hig birds : 



RATI NOMINA. 



23. Golden-crowned 

 wren, 



Qi. Marsh-titmouse, 



25. Small willow- 

 wren. 



26. Largest ditto, 



27. Grassho])per- 

 lark, 



28. Martin, 



29. Bullfincli, 

 :}0. Bunting, 



> Reg II 



Its note as minute as 

 its person ; fretiuents 

 the tops of high oaks 

 and firs : the smallest 

 British bird. 

 Haunts great woods : 

 two harsh sharp notes. 

 5 Rcgulus non ens- / Sings in AJarch, and on 



lus -eristdtus . 



I'arus palustris . 



I tatus : 



Ditto : 



S Alaudu minima 

 \ voce locustte : 



Hirundo ugrestis 



Pijrrhula. 

 Ember izti Albu . 



\ to September. 

 i Cantut voce striduld In- 

 <^ citstcp ; from end of 

 y4i>ril to August. 

 Chirps all night, from the 

 iddle of April to the 

 nd oi' July. 

 All the breeding time ; 

 from Mui/ to Septem- 

 ber. 



C Chirp 

 < mi( 

 i end 



S From the end of Janu- 

 \ nry to July. 



All singing birds, and those that have 

 any pretensions to song, not only in Dri- 

 tain, but perhaps the world through, come 

 inider the Linncean ordo otpasseres. 



The above-mentioned birds, as they stand 

 numerically, belong to the following Lin- 

 ncBan genera. 



