LX.] OF SELBORNE. I6y 
Are birds induced to sing again because the temperament ot 
autumn resembles that of spring ? 
Lijmseus ranges plants geographically : palms inhabit the 
tropics, grasses the temperate zones, and mosses and lichens 
the polar circles ; no doubt animals may be classed in the same 
manner with propriety. 
THE LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE. 
House-sparrows build under eaves in the spring ; as the 
weather becomes hotter they get out for coolness, and nest in 
plum-trees and apple-trees. These birds have been known 
sometimes to build in rooks' nests, and sometimes in the forks 
of boughs under rooks' nests. 
As my neighbour was housing a rick he observed that his 
dogs devoured all the little red mice that they could catch, 
