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SINGING BIEDS. 



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

 spring : — 



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 Fehruary, March, April ; 

 re-assumes for a short 

 time in Septemher. 



21, Missel-bird, 



Tardus visclvorus. 



22. Great titmouse, or 1 r? - 



ox-eye, J "^ 



Birds that have somewhat of a note or song, and yet are 

 hardly to he called singiiig hirds : — 



f 

 I 



r Haunts great ■woods ; two 



\ harsli sharp notes. 



c ,, .„ I Seijulus non crista- (Sings in March and on to 



Small wiUow-wren, ^ ?„,„ -j «„„..„,,„„ 



23. Golden - crowned 

 wren, 



\-Begul', 



,vs cnstatus. 



s note as minute as its 

 person ; frequents the 

 tops of high oaks and firs ; 

 the smallest British hird. 



24. 

 25. 



Marsh titmouse, Parus pa^tistris. 



26. Largest ditto, 



27. Grasshopper-lark, 



28. Martin, 



29. Bullfinch, 

 £0. Bunting, 



Ditto. 



'\Alauda minima 

 J voce locustcs. 



Hirundo agreslis. 

 Pyrrhula. 

 'Eniberiza alha. 



\ September. 



r Cantat voce stridula lo- 



< CMSicpy from end of April 



[ to August. 



' Chirps all night, from the 



middle of April to the 



end of July, 

 All the breeding time ; from 



May to September. 



J From tlie end of January 

 1 to. 



( July. 



AH singing birds, and tiose tliat liave any pretensions to 

 song, not only in Britain, bnt perhaps the world through, 

 come under the Linneean ordo oi passeres. 



The above-mentioned birds, as they stand numerically, 

 belong to the following Linnseaii genera : — 



1, 7, 10, 27, 



2, 11,21, 



Alauda. 

 Twdus. 



3, 4, S, 9, 12, 15,1 



17, 18, 20, 23, \Motacilla. 



25,26, J 



6, 30, 



8,28, 



13, 16, 19, 



22, 24, 



14,29, 



Hirmido. 

 Fringilla. 



Parus. 



Loxia. 



