THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE lOi 



11. Red-start, 



12. Stone-curlew, 



RAII NOMINA. 



Rutkilla. 



Oedicnemus. 



13- 



IS- 

 1 6. 



17- 

 1 8. 



Turtle-dove, 



Swift, Hirundo opus. 



Less reed-sparrow. Passer arundinaceus 

 minor. 



Land-rail, 

 Largest willow- 

 wren. 



Ortygometra. 

 Regulus not! cristatus. 



USUALLY APPEARS ABOUT 



Middle of April : more 

 agreeable song. 



End of March : loud noc- 

 turnal whistle. 

 Turtur. 

 Grasshopper-lark, Alauda minima locustae Middle of April : a small 

 voce. sibilous note, till the end 



of July. 



About April 27. 



A sweet polyglot, but hurry- 

 ing : it has the notes of 

 many birds. 



A loud harsh note, crex,crex. 



Canlat voce stridula hcustae ; 

 end of April, on the tops 

 of high beeches. 



Beginning of May ; chatters 

 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 Linnaean system ; and are all 

 of the or do of passeres, save the jynx and cuculus, which are 

 picae, and the charadrius {oedicnemus) and rallus [ortygometra), 

 which are grallae. 



These birds, as they stand numerically, belong to the 

 following Linnaean genera : 



19. Goat-sucker, or Caprimul^. 



fern-owl, 



20. Fly-catcher, Stoporola. 



1. Jynx. 



2. 6, 7, 9, 10, II, 16, 18. Motacilla. 



3. 4, S, 15- Hirundo. 

 8. Cuculus. 



12. Charadrius. 



13. Columba. 

 17. Rallus. 



19. Caprimulgus. 



14. Alauda. 



20. Muscicapo. 



Most soft-billed birds live on insects, and not on grain 

 and seeds ; and therefore at the end of summer they 

 retire : but the following soft-billed birds, though insect- 

 eaters, stay with us the year round : 



RAII NOMINA. 



Redbreast, 

 Wren, 



Rubecula. 

 Passer troglodytes. 



{These frequent houses ; and 

 haunt outbuildings in the 

 winter ; eat spiders. 



