OF SELBORNE 



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RAll NOMINA. 



6. Black-cap, Atricapilla : 



7. Nightingale, Luscinia : 



8. Cuckoo, Cuculus : 



9. Middle Regulus non cris- 



willow-wren, talus : 

 10. White-throat, Ficedulx affinis : 



11. Red-start, 



Ruticilla : 

 Oedicnemns : 



12. Stone 



curlew, 



13. Turtle-dove, TuHur : 



14. Grasshopper- Alauda minima 



lark, 



15. Swift, 



16. Less reed- 



sparrow, 



17. Land-rail, 



18. Largest 



locustie voce : 



Hirundo apus : 

 Passer arundinaceus 

 minor : 



Ortygomelra : 

 Regulus non cris- 



willow-wren, talus : 



19. Goat-sucker, Caprimulgus : 



or fern-owl, 



20. Fly-catcher, Sloparola : 



USUALLY APPEAns ABOUT 



Ditto : a sweet wild note. 



Beginning of April. 



Middle of April. 



Ditto : a sweet plaintive 

 note. 



Ditto : mean note ; sings 

 on till September. 



Middle of April : more 

 agreeable song. 



End of March ; loud noc- 

 turnal whistle. 



Middle of April : a small 

 sibilous note, till the 

 end of July. 



About April 27. 



A sweet polyglot, but 

 hurrying : it has the 

 notes of many birds. 

 A loud harsh note, crez, crex. 



Cantal voce slriduld locus- 

 tse ; end of April, on 

 the tops of high beeches. 



Beginning of May ; chat- 

 ters by night with a 

 singular noise. 



May 12. A very mute 

 bird : this is the latest 

 summer bird of passage. 



This assemblage of curious and amusing birds belongs 

 to ten several genera of the Linnsean system ; and are all 

 of the ordo of passeres, save the jynx and cuculus, which 

 are picas, and the charadrius (oedicnemus) and rallus 

 (origgometra) which are grallse. 



These birds, as they stand numerically, belong to the 

 following Linnaean genera : 



1 , Jynx : 



2, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 16, 18. Molacilla : 



3, 4, 5, 15. Hirundo : 

 8. Cuculus : 

 12. Charadrius : 



13. Columba : 

 17. Rallus : 



19. Caprimulgus : 



14. Alauda ; 



20. Muscicapa : 



