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NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. 
This assemblage of curious and amusing birds belongs to ten 
several genera of the Linnsean system ; and are all of the order of 
vasseres, save the jynx and cuculus, which dtiQ piece, and the char a- 
drius foedicnemusj and r alius forty gometraj, which are grallce. 
These birds, as they stand numerically, belong to the follow- 
ing Linnaean genera : — 
1, Jynx: 13. Colimba: 
2, 6, r, 9, 10, 11, 16, 1& Motacilla: 17. Rallus : 
3,4,5,15. Hirimdo : 19. Caprimulgus : 
8. Cuculus : 14. Alauda : 
12. Charadrius: 20. Muscicapa. 
Most soft-billed birds live on insects, and not on grain and 
seeds ; and therefore at the end of summer they retire : but the 
following soft -billed birds, though insect-eaters, stay with us the 
year round : — 
Redbreast, 
Wren, 
Hedge-sparrow, 
White-wagtail, 
Yellow-wagtail, 
Gray-wagtail, 
Wheat-ear, 
Whin-chat, 
Stone-chatter, 
RATI NOMINA. 
Riibeciila : 
Passer troglodytes : 
Curriica : 
Motacilla alba : 
Motacilla flava : 
Motacilla cinerea : 
(Enanthe : 
(Enanthe secunda. 
(Enanthe teriia. 
c These frequent houses ; and haunt out- 
C buildings in the winter : eat spiders, 
c Haunt sinks for crumbs and other 
X sweepings. 
r These frequent shallow rivulets near 
3 the spring heads, where they never 
^ freeze : eat the aurelise of Phryganea, 
^ The smallest birds that walk, 
c Some of these are to be seen with us the 
C winter through. 
Golden-crowned wren, Reguhis crisiatus 
C This is the smallest British bird : haunts 
-| the tops of tall trees ; stays the win- 
l ter through. 
A List of the Winter Birds of Passage round this neighbourhood, ranged somewhat in the 
order in lohich they appear. 
1. Ring-ousel, 
2. Redwing, 
3. Fieldfare, 
4. Royston-crow, 
5. Woodcock, 
6. Snipe, 
7. Jack-snipe, 
8. Wood-pigeon, 
9. Wild-swan, 
10. Wild-goose, 
RAII NOMINA. 
Merula torquaia : 
Turdus iliacus: 
Turdus pilaris : 
Comix cinerea : 
Scolopax : 
Gallinago minor : 
Gallinago minima : 
(Enas : 
Cygnus ferus : 
Anser ferns : 
( This is a new migration, which I have 
3 lately discovered about Michaelmas 
2 week, and again about the fourteenth 
^ of March. 
About old Michaelmas. 
^Though a percher by day, roosts on the 
f ground. 
Most frequent on downs. 
Appears about old Michaelmas. 
Some snipes constantly breed with us. 
5 Seldom appears till late: not in such 
l plenty as formerly. 
On some large waters. 
