OF SELBORNE 



105 



1 8. Redstart, 



19. Chaffinch, 



20. Nightingale, 



RAII NOMINA. 



Ruticilla. Middle of June : begins in 



May. 

 Fringilla. Beginning of June : sings first 



in February. 

 Luscinia. Middle of June : sings first 



in April. 



Birds that sing for a short time, and very early in the 

 spring : 



21. Missel-bird, Turdus viscworus. January the 2nd, 1770, in 



February. Is called in 

 Hampshire and Sussex the 

 storm-cock, because its 

 song is supposed to fore- 

 bode windy wet weather : 

 is the largest singing bird 

 we have. 

 In February, March, April : 

 reassumes 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 Regulus cristatus. 

 wren. 



22. Great titmouse, Fritiffllagp. 

 or ox-eye. 



24. Marsh titmouse, Parus palustris. 



25. Small willow- Regulus non cristatus. 



wren, 



26. Largest ditto, Ditto, 



27. Grasshopper- 



lark, 



28. Martin, 



29. Bullfinch, 



30. Bunting, 



Its note as minute as its per- 

 son ; frequents the tops of 

 high oaks and firs : the 

 smallest British bird. 



Haunts great woods : two 

 harsh sharp notes. 



Sings in March and on to 

 September. 



Caniat voce stridula kcustae; 

 from end of April to 

 August. 

 Alauda minima voce Chirps all night, from the 

 middle of April to the 

 end of July. 



All the breeding time ; from 

 May to September. 



locustae. 

 Hirundo agrestis. 



Pyrrhula. 

 Emberiza alba. 



From the end of January to 

 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 or do oi passer es. 



