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NATURAL HISTORY 
song, not only in Britain, but perhaps the world througli , 
come under the Linnaean Ordo of Passeres. 
The above-mentioned birds,, as they stand numerically, 
belong to the following Linnaaan 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. Hirundo : 
13, 16, 19. Fringilla^ 
Motacilla : 22, 24. Parus : 
Emheriza : 14, 29. Loxia. 
Birds that sing as they fly are but few : — 
Skylark, 
Titlark, 
Woodlark, 
Blackbird, 
Whitethroat, 
Swallow, 
Wren, 
RAII NOMINA. 
Alauda vulgai-is: 
Alauda pratorum : 
Alauda arbor ea : 
Merula : 
Ficedulm ajffinis : 
Hirundo domes- 
tica : 
Passer troglodytes: 
Rising, suspended, and falling, 
f In its descent ; also sitting on 
\ trees, and walking on the 
i ground. 
j Suspended ; in hot summer 
\ nights all night long. 
Sometimes from bush to bush 
Uses when singing on the 
wing odd jerks and gesti- 
culations. 
I In soft sunny weather. 
Sometimes from bush to bush. 
Birds that breed most early in these parts : ^- 
Raven, 
Song- thrush, 
Blackbird, 
Rook, 
Woodlark, 
Ring dove. 
Corvus : 
Turdus : 
Merula : 
Comix frugilega ; 
Alauda arhorea : 
Palumhus torqua- 
tiis : 
i Hatches in February and 
i March. 
In March. 
In March. 
Builds the beginning of March. 
Hatches in April. 
s the beginning of April. 
[ Lay 
All birds that continue in full song till after Midsummer 
appear to me to breed more than once. 
Most kinds of birds seem to me to be wild and shy some- 
what in proportion to their bulk ; I mean in this island, 
where they are much pursued and annoyed ; but in Ascen- 
^ To this list might have been added the robin, since it not unfrc- 
quently nests in January during mild winters. — Ed. 
