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134 Birds that sing for a short time, and very early in the spring:

Birds that have somewhat of a note or song, and yet are hardly to be called singing birds:

All singing birds, and those that have any pretensions to song, not only in Britain, but perhaps the world through, come under the Linnæan ordo of Passeres.

The above-mentioned birds, as they stand numerically, belong to the following Linnæan genera: