ON THE NOTES OF BIRDS. 
Birds. 
Plain- 
Nightingale (Sylvia luscinia) .... 
Redbreast (Sylvia rubecula) ..... 
Sky-Lark (Alauda arvensis) ... 
Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilia)..... 
Pettychaps (Sylvia hortensis)..... 
Wood-Lark (Alauda arborea)..... 
Linnet (Fringilla cannabind)......00+ 
Sedge-Warbler (Sylvia phragmitis)*.... 
Goldfinch (Fringilla carduelis) ....60.06 
Throstle (Zurdus musicus)......+6 
Blackbird (Zurdus merula) .......0e 
Lesser Field-Lark (Anthus arboreus) . 
Yellow Wren (Sylvia trochilus) ....... 
Chaffinch (Fringilla celebs) .....4.. 
Wren (Sylvia troglodytes) ......ceecccsseeeee 
Pied Flycatcher (Muscicapa luctuosa) .... 
Greenfinch (Fringilla chloris) .........06+ 
Dipper (Cinelus aquaticus) ...ccccceeceeees 
Hedge-Warbler (Accentor modularis) . 
Missel-Thrush (Turdus viscivorus) . 
Swallow (Hirundo rustica) ....... 
Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio). 
Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)... 
Titlark (Anthus pratensis).......... 
Shore-Lark (Anthus aquaticus) ..... 
Whitethroat (Sylvia cinerea)....... 
Redstart (Sylvia phenicurus) .. 
Whinchat (Saxicola rubetra)..... ar 
Siskin (Fringilla spins) ....cccccseceeeesereeteeees 
Lesser Redpole (Fringilla linaria) ........66 + 
Wheatear (Saxicola wnanthe) .. ite 
Stonechat (Saxicola rubicola)...........6+ 
Lesser Whitethroat (Sylvia curruca) ...... 
Dartford Warbler (Sylvia provincialis)t 10... 
Reed-Wren (Sylvia arundinaced) .......6.scceseeee 
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* Mr. Barrington has inserted the Chaflinch, Hedge-Warbler, and Reed- 
Sparrow in his table, which (according to his definition of a bird’s song) 
ought not to have been admitted ; indeed the notes of the Reed-Sparrow are 
so mean that I am inclined to believe that he has attributed the song of the 
Sedge-Warbler to this species, especially, as he remarks in a note, that, it 
sings in the night, an error by no means uncommon among ornithologists ; 
yet, if this be the case, he has greatly underrated it; for though harsh in tone 
and hurried in manner, and though the same note is repeated frequently in 
succession, it certainly possesses great variety, and is, upon the whole, rather 
agreeable. 
+ I have included the Dartford Warbler and the Reed-Wren on the 
authority of Montagu (see the ‘ Ornithological Dictionary’ and Supplement), 
but I possess no means of estimating the songs of these specics, having never 
heard them. 
