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FATURAL HISTORY 



Birds that have somewhat of .a note or 

 song, and yet are hardly to be called sing- 

 ing birds : 



23. Golden-crowned 

 wren, 



24. Marsh-titmouse, 



25. Small willow- 

 Avren. 



RATI NOMINA. 



Regulus crisUUus 



Parus palustris : 



i Regulus non ens- 

 \ tatus : 



26. Largest ditto, Ditto 



27. Grasshopper- 

 lark, 



28. Martin, 



29. Bullfinch, 



30. Bunting, 



5 Alauda minima 

 ^ voce locust ce : 



Hirundo agrestis 



Pyrrhula. 

 Emheriza Alba : 



Its note as minute as 

 its person ; frequents 

 the tops of high oaks 

 and firs: the smallest 

 British bird. 

 5 Haunts great woods : 

 I two harsh sharp notes. 

 ? Sings in March, and on 

 ^ to September. 

 ( Cantat voce striduld lo- 

 custce ; from end of 

 f April to August. 

 C Chirps all night, from the 

 middle of April to the 

 ^ end of July. 



5 All the breeding time; 

 from May to Septem- 

 ber. 



From the end of Janu- 

 ary to July. 



All singing birds, and those that have 

 any pretensions to song, not only in Bri- 

 tain, but perhaps the world through, come 

 under the Linncean ordo of passer cs. 



Theabove-mentionedbirds, as they stand 

 numerically, belong to the following Liti- 

 ncean genera. 



1, 7, 10, 27, 



2, 11,21, 



3, 4, 5, 9, 12, 15, 



17, 18. 20, 23, 25, 26, 

 6, 30. 



Alauda : 

 Turdus : 



8, 28, 

 13, 16, 19. 



Motacilla: 22, 24, 

 Eniberiza: 14, 29, 



Hirundo : 

 Frihgilla : 



Parus : 



Loxia : 



