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THE NATURAL HISTORY 
[LETT. 
Birds that cease to be in full song, and are usually silent at 
or before midsummer : — 
RAII NOMINA. 
Begidm non cris- ^ ^^.^^^^^^ j^^^^^ . ^ • ^ -^^ 
talus: ) ^ ^ 
Ruticilla : Ditto : begins in May. 
. .„ ( Beo'inning of June : sings first in 
Fringilla: | February. 
r • • S Middle of June : sings first in 
Lnsama: | ^^^^.^^ 
Birds tbat sing for a sliort time, and very early in the spring : — 
January the 2nd, 1770, in Febru- 
ary. Is called in Hamj^shire 
and Sussex the storm-cock, be- 
cause its song is supposed to 
forbode windy, wet weather : is 
the largest singing bird we have. 
In February, March, April : re- 
assumes for a short time in 
September. 
17. Middle wil- 
low-wren, 
18. Redstart, 
19. Chaffinch, 
20. Nightingale, 
21. Missel-bird, 
Turdus viscivorus 
, I'" 
ivorus : ( 
or > Frinfjillago : 
22. Great Tit- 
mouse, 
Ox-eye, 
Birds that have somewhat of a note or song, and yet are 
hardly to be called singing birds : — 
C Its note as minute as its person ; 
) 7) 7 ... 1 frequents the tops of high oaks 
1 ^'"J''^''' ■' ) and firs : the smallest British 
( bird. 
23. Golden-crown- 
ed wren. 
I Parus palustris : 
I Begulus non cris- 
\ tatus : 
Ditto. 
( Alauda minima 
\ voce locustce : 
Hirundo agrest is : 
Pyrrhula : 
Emheriza alba : 
24. Marsh - tit- 
mouse, 
25. Small willow- 
wren, 
26. Largest ditto, 
27. Grasshopper- 
lark, 
28. Martin, 
29. Bullfinch, 
30. Bunting, 
All singing birds, and those that have any pretensions to 
song, not only in Britain, but perhaps the world through, come 
under the LinnaBan or do of passer cs. 
The above-mentioned birds, as they stand numerically, belong 
to the foUowinor Linnsean genera ; — 
j Haunts great woods : two harsh, 
\ sharp notes. 
] Sings in March, and on to Sep- 
( tember. 
( " Cantat voce stridula locustse ; " 
\ from end of April to August, 
j Chirps all night, from the middle 
( of April to the end of July. 
( All the breeding time ; from May 
\ to September. 
From the end of January to J uly. 
1, 7, 10, 27. 
2, 11, 21. 
3, 4, 5, 9, 12, 15 
17, 18, 20, 
6, 30. 
Alauda : 
Turdus : 
,■^23,^25, 9Q]Motacilla: 
Eniherka : 
8, 28. 
13, 16, 
22, 24. 
14, 29. 
Hirundo. 
Fringilla. 
Parus. 
Lo.i'ia. 
