OF SELBOENE 



99 



25. Small willow-wren,' 



26. Largest ditto,' 



27. Grasshopper-lark, 



28. Martin, 



29. Bullfinch, 



30. Bunting, 



RAII NOMINA. 



Regulusnoncristatus ■j^'",^]"^'^'"'^* ^""^ °" '° ^'^ 



j)Hlu . ( Cantat voce striduld locustcB ; 



\ homendoiAprillo August. 



(Alauda minima voce\^'^^?^.,^^\''^}^'^'°?' "^^ 

 I locusts: \ ™^^^'« °f ^^' '° *« e"d 



Mirun,oagre.is: {"^^^ hpZif^ '■ '™'" 

 Pyrrhula : 



/From the end of January to 



t July. 



Emberiza alba : 



All singing birds, and those that have any pretensions to song, 

 not only in Britain, but perhaps the world through, come under 

 the Linnaan ordo oi passeres. 



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

 to the following Linnman genera. 



1, 7, 10, 27. 



2, II, 21. 



3, 4, 5, 9, 12, IS, 



17, 18, 20, 23, 25, 26. 

 6, 3°- 



Alauda : 

 Turdus : 



Motacilla : 



Emberiza : 



8, 28. 



13, 16, 19. 



22, 24. 



14, 29. 



Hirundo, 

 Fringilla. 



Parus. 



Loxia. 



Birds that sing as they fly are but few. 



Skylark, 

 Titlark, 



Woodlark, 



Blackbird, 



White-throat, 



Swallow, 

 Wren, 



Alauda vulgaris : 

 Alauda pratorum : 



Alauda arborea : 



Merula : 



Ficedulte affinis : 



HiruTido domestica : 

 Passer troglodytes : 



r^isin; 



{In it's 

 tref 

 gro 



Rising, suspended, and falling, 

 "n it's descent ; also sitting on 

 trees, and walking on the 

 ground. 

 /Suspended; in hot summer 

 \ nights all night long. 



Sometimes from bush to bush. 

 / Uses when singing on the wing 

 \ odd jerks and gesticulations. 



In soft sunny weather. 



Sometimes from bush to bush. 



Birds that breed most early in these parts. 



Raven, 



Song-thrush, 



Blackbird, 



Rook, 



Woodlark, 



Ring-dove, 



Corvus : 



Turdus : 

 Merula : 



Comix frugilega : 

 Alauda arborea : 

 Palumbus torquatus 



/Hatches in February and 

 \ March. 



In March. 



In March. 



Builds the beginning of ^arcA. 



Hatches in April. 



Lays the beginning of April.' 



1 [The chiffchaff (/■. rufus, Bechst.).] 

 ^ [The wood- wren (P. sibilatrix, Bechst.).] 



3 [" To this list might have been added the robin, since it not unfrequently nests 

 in January during mild winters." — Harting.'\ 



