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NATURAL HISTORY O'F SELBORNE. 
1. Wood -lark, 
2. Song-thrush, 
3. Wren, 
4. Redbreast, 
5. Hedge-sparrow, 
6. Yellowhammer, 
7. Skylark, 
8. Swallow, 
9. Black-cap, 
10. Titlark, t 
11. Blackbird, 
12. White-throat, 
13. Goldfinch, 
14. Greenfinch, 
15. Less reed-spar- 
row. 
RAII NOMINA. 
Alauda arborea : 
Turdus simpUciter didus 
Passer troglodytes : 
Rubecula : 
Curruca : 
Emberiza flava * 
Alauda vulgaris : 
Hirundo domestica : 
Atricapilla : 
Alauda pratorum : 
Merula vulgaris : 
Ficedulee affinis : 
Car due lis: 
Chloris : 
f Passer arundinaceus 
I minor : 
C In January, and continues to siiig 
} through all the summer and 
^ autumn. 
r In February and on to August, re- 
' t assume their song in autumn. 
All the year, hard frost excepted. 
Ditto. 
Early in February to July the 10th. 
J Early in February, and on through 
I July to August the 21st. 
In February, and on to October. 
From April to September. 
Beginning of April to July 13th.* 
From middle of April to July the 16th. 
C Sometimes in February and March, 
.J and so on to July the twenty- 
^ third; reassurties in autumn. 
In April, and on to July 23. 
April, and through to September 16. 
On to July and August 2. 
j> May, on to beginning of July. 
^ Breeds and whistles on till August ; 
I reassumes its note when they be- 
< gin to congregate in October, arid 
I again early before the flock se- 
parate. 
Birds that cease to be in full song, and are lasually silent at or 
before Midsummer : — 
1 6. Common linnet, Linaria vulgaris : 
17. Middle willow- 
wren, 
18. Redstart, 
^ Regulu; 
Middle of June : begins in April. 
Ditto : begins in May.J 
r Beginning of June : sings first in 
February. 
1 
'us non cristatus : 
Ruticilla : 
19. Chaffinch, Fringilla: 
20. Nightingale, Luscinia : Middle of June : sings first in April. 
Birds that sing for a short time, and very early in the spring : — 
January the 2d, 1770, in February, 
i Is called in Hampshire and Sussex 
the storm-cock, because its song is 
supposed to forebode windy wet 
weather : is the largest singing bird 
we have. 
21 . Missel-bird,§ Turdus viscivorus : 
22. Great titmouse, 
or ox-eye, 
Fringillago : 
rin February, Match, April: reasunies 
I for a short time in September. 
* Becoming gradually less frequent for about six weeks before it entirely ceases. — Ed. 
t It IS clear that Mr. White never discriminated between the " titlark" and " pipitlark" of the 
bird-shops, the tree-pipit (anthus arboreus), and common-pipit {A- comrmnis), of modern nomen- 
clators : the former is a very sweet songster, and a bird of passage, arriving in the southern 
counties eaHy in April ; the latter a resident species, iand a mean songster, more wagtail-like in 
its habits, and easily distinguishable by its lotig and compai-atively straight hind cla\V, which in 
the latter is shorter and more curved. Various other differences will appear on comparison. — Ed. 
t Or rather, I should say, early in April. — Ed. 
§ The missel-thrush may be heard ocCasioiidlly till the end of June, and constantly during the 
months of April and May. — Ed. 
