NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. 



Birds that cease to be in full song, and are usually silent at or before 

 Midsummer : 



RAII NOMTNA. 



17. Middle willow- wren, Regulus non cristatus. 



18. Redstart, Ruticilla. 



19. Chaffinch, Fringilla. 



20. Nightingale, 



Luscinia. 



Middle of June : begins in April. 

 Ditto : begins in May. 



5 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 : 



21. Missel-bird, 



22. Great titmouse, or' 

 ox-eye, 



Turdus viscivorus. 



Fringittago. 



/'January 2, 1770, in February. 

 Is called in Hampshire and 

 Sussex the storm-cock, be- 

 cause its song is supposed to 

 forebode windy wet weather : 

 it is the largest singing bird 

 we have. 



February, March, April : 

 re-assumes 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-crowned 



wren, 



24. Marsh-titmouse, 



25. Small willow-wren, 



26. Largest ditto, 



27. Grasshopper-lark, 



28. Martin, 



29. Bullfinch, 



30. Bunting, 



> Regulus cristatus. 



Parus palustris. 

 Regulus non cristatus. 

 IHtto. 



( Alauda minima voce 

 { locustae. 



Hirundo ogrestis. 

 Pyrrhula. 

 Emberiza alba. 



'Its note as minute as its per- 

 son; frequents the tops of 

 high oaks and firs : the small- 

 est British bird. 

 Haunts great woods : two harsh 



sharp notes. 

 Sings in March, and on to Sep- 

 tember. 



( Cantat voce striduld locustce; 



( from end of April to August. 



(Chirps all night, from the mid- 



{ die of April to the end of 



( July. 



f All the breeding time ; from 



( May to September. 



(From the end of January to 

 1 July. 



All singing birds, and those that have any pretensions to song, not 

 only in Britain, but perhaps the world through, come under the 

 Linnaean prdo of Passeres. 



The above-mentioned birds, as they stand numerically, belong to the 

 following Linnsean genera : 



1, 7, 10, 27, 



2, 11, 21, 



3, 4, 5, 9, 12, 15, 17, 

 18, 20, 23, 25, 26, 



6, 30, 



Alauda. 

 Turdus. 



Motacilla. 

 Emberiza, 



8, 28, Hirundo. 



13, 16, 19, Fringilla. 

 22, 24, Parus. 



14, 29, Loxia. 



added the common bunting and green linnet, both of which have a peculiar 

 breeding flight and song ; the first however is a very locally distributed species. 

 The bird called tit-lark in this list seems from the note of its habits to be the tree- 

 lark or pipit, Anthus arboreus. The true tit-lark or meadow-pipit, Anthus pratensis, 

 has also a descending flight, singing at the same time, and would be a visitant 

 at least to the downs. The common winchat will rise from its perch on the top of 

 some tall plant, and make a short musical excursion upwards. The blackbird's 

 call, from bush to bush, is rather an alarm note, than any part of its usual song. 



