BIRDS OF PASSAGE. 
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Birds that liave somewhat of a note or song, and yet are 
hardly to be called singing birds : — 
RAII NOMINA. 
23. Golden-crowned 
wren, 
24. Marsh titmouse, 
25. Small willow- 
wren, 
26 Largest ditto, 
27. Grasshopper- 
lark, 
28. Martin, 
29. Bullfinch, 
30. Bunting, 
C Its note as minute as its person ; fre- 
) quents the tops of high oaks and firs : 
( the smallest British bird, 
f Haunts great woods: two harsh sharp 
\ notes. 
I Reguhis cristahis 
Fai^s palustris : 
' j- Regulus non cristatus :Swgs in March, and on to September. 
_ ., , f Cantat voce striduld locust(B ; from end 
"^"^^ • \ of April to August. 
> Alauda minima, voce f Chirps all night, from the middle of 
5 locustce : 1 April to the end of July. 
rAll the breeding time; from May to 
1 September. 
From the end of January to July. 
AU singing birds, and those that have any pretensions to song, 
not only in Britain, but perhaps the world through, come under 
the Linncean or do oi passer es. 
The above-mentioned birds,, as they stand numerically, belong 
to the following Linncean genera : — 
l,r, 10, 2r. Alauda: 8,28, 
Turdus: 13,16,19. 
locustce : 
Hirundo agresiis : 
FyrrhulaA 
Emheriza alba : 
2, II, 21. 
ir,^8,' lsi%!k 26. } 22, 24, 
6, 30. 
Hirundo. 
Fringilla, 
Parus. 
Loxia. 
Skylark, 
Titlark, 
Woodiark, 
Blackbird, 
White-throat, 
Swallow, 
Wren, 
Emherixa: 14, 29. 
Birds that sing as they fly are but few. 
Alauda vulgaris : Rising, suspended, and falling. 
Alauda pratorum : 
Alameda arborea : 
Merula : 
Ficedulce affinis : 
Hirundo domestica : 
Passer troglodytes : 
( In its descent; also sitting on trees, and 
1 walking on the ground, 
f Suspended; in hot summer nights all 
1 night long. 
Sometimes from bush to bush, 
f U.ses when singing on the wing odd jerks 
1 and gesticulations. 
In soft sunny weather. 
Sometimes from bush to bush. J 
* This species has rather a pleasing though short song, but which possesses hardly any variety : 
there is, however, a deal of sprightliness about it, and it can hardly be considered weak for the 
size of the utterer. The tree-creeper has a note somewhat similar.— Ed. 
t A low and very peculiar chattering warble, which must always be at once recognised by those 
who have ever heard it. Both sexes sing alike ; but the note must be considered singular rather 
than musical. — Ed. 
t To this list may be added various species which more or less habitually sing on the wing- 
AU the pipit genus {anthm) sing principally when flying; the fallow-chat, black-headed furze- 
chat, furzeling {melizophilui) , and, it is said, the loeustelle, when hovering in the air ; the sedge- 
reedling as it mounts to a small height, or as it flits from bush to bush ; the missel-thrush as it 
crosses a field, but not very commonly; the redstart, all the pettychaps genus, and, though very 
rarely, the robin, as they fly from tree to tree ; and the tree-creeper, and the whole fauvet genus, 
while doing the same, commencing a few seconds before they settle, and repeating the strain con- 
tinuously after they have alighted : the cuckoo, also, occasionally repeats its well-known note 
while upon the wing. — Ed. 
