RAII NOMINA.
21. Missel-bird, _Turdus January 2nd, 1770,
viscivorus_. in February. Is
called Hampshire
and Sussex the
storm-cock, because
its song is
supposed to
forebode windy wet
weather: it is the
largest singing
bird we have.
22. Great _Fringillago_. In February, March,
tit-mouse, or April; re-assumes
ox-eye. for a short time in
September.
Birds that have somewhat of a note or song, and yet are hardly to be
called singing birds:--
RAII NOMINA.
23. Golden-crowned _Regulus Its note as minute as
wren, cristatus_. its person; frequents
the tops of high oaks
and firs; the smallest
British bird.
24. Marsh tit-mouse, _Parus palustris_. Haunts great woods; two
harsh, sharp notes.
25. Small willow-wren, _Regulus non Sings in March, and on
cristatus_. to September.
26. Largest ditto, _Ditto_. _Cantat voce stridula
locustae_; from end of
April to August.
27. Grasshopper-lark, _Alauda minima voce Chirps all night, from
locustae_. the middle of April to
the end of July.
28. Martin, _Hirundo agrestis_. All the breeding time;
from May to September.
29. Bullfinch, _Pyrrhula_.
30. Bunting, _Emberiza alba_. From the end of January
to July.
All singing birds, and those that have any pretensions to song, not only
in Britain, but perhaps the world through, come under the Linnaean _ordo_
of _Passeres_.
The above-mentioned birds, as they stand numerically, belong to the
following Linnaean genera:--
1,7,10,27, _Alauda_ 8,28, _Hirundo_.
2,11,21, _Turdus_. 13,16,19, _Fringilla_.
3,4,5,9,12, ) 22,24, _Parus_.
15,17,18,20, _Motacilla_ 14,29, _Loxia_.
)
23,25,26, )
6,20, _Emberiza_.