SUMMER BIRDS OF PASSAGE. 93 



Thus, ere night's veil had half obscured the sky, 

 TV impatient damsel hung her lamp on high : 

 True to the signal, by love's meteor led, 

 Leander hasten'd to his Hero's bed.* 



LETTER XXV. 



TO THE HON. DAINES BARRINGTON. 



SELBORNE, June 30, 1769. 

 DEAR SIR, 



WHEN I was in town last month, I partly engaged 

 that I would some time do myself the honour to 

 write to you on the subject of natural history ; and 

 I am the more ready to fulfil my promise, because I 

 see you are a gentleman of great candour, and one 

 that will make allowances, especially where the wri- 

 ter professes to be an out- door naturalist, one that 

 takes his observations from the subject itself, and not 

 from the writings of others. 



The following is a List of the Summer Birds of Passage 

 which I have discovered in this neighbourhood, ranged 

 somewhat in the order in which they appear : 



See the story of Hero and Leander. 



