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Birds that sing as they fly are but few : 



Skylark, 

 Titlark, 



Woodlark, 



-Blackbird, 



White-throat, 



Swallow, 

 Wren, 



BAIl NOMINA. 



Alauda vulgaris • 

 Alauda pratorum . 



Alauda ai-borea : 

 Merula .- 



Ficedulce affitiis : 



J Hirundo domes- 

 \ tic a : 

 \ Passer trogio- 

 ( dytes : 



S Risiijff, suspended, and 

 ? falling. 



C In its descent ; also sit- 

 -< ting on trees, and walk- 

 i_ ing on the ground. 

 C Suspended ; in hot Sum- 

 < mer nights all night 

 f long. 

 Sometimes from bush to 

 bush. 



5 Uses when singing on the 

 , wing odd jerks and ges- 

 ( ticulations. 



i In soft sunny weather. 



> Sometimes from bush to 

 S bush. 



Birds that breed most early in these parts 



Raven, 



Song-thrush, 

 Blackbird, 



Rook, 



Woodlark, 



Ring-dove, 



I 



Corvus : 



T Urdus : 

 Merula -. 



Comix frugilega 



Alauda arborea : 

 Palumbus to?: 

 quatus : 



< Hatches in February and 

 I March. 



In March. 



In March. 

 5 Builds the beginning of 

 \ March. 



Hatches in April. 

 i Lays the beginning of 

 5 April. 



All birds that continue in full song till 

 after MidsummeK appear to me to breed 

 more than once. 



Most kinds of birds seem to me to be 

 wild and shy somewhat in proportion to 

 their bulk ; I mean in this island, where 



