LETTER I 



TO THE HONOURABLE DAINES BARRINGTON 



Selborne, June 30, 1769. 



Dear Sir, 

 When I was In town last month I partly engaged that I 

 would sometime 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 writer professes to be an out-door naturalist, one 

 that takes his observations from the subject itself, and not 

 from the writings of others. 



l!he following is a List of the Summer Birds of Passage which 

 I have discovered in this neighbourhood^ ranged somewhat 

 in the order which they appear: 



1. Wryneck, 



2. Smallest willow- 



wren, 



3. Swallow, 



4. Martin, 



5. Sand-martin, 



6. Black-cap, 



7. Nightingale, 



8. Cuckoo, 



9. Middle willow- 



wren, 

 10. White-throat, 



RAII NOMINA. 



Jynx, she torquilla. 



Regulus non cristatus. 



Hirundo domestica. 



Hirundo rustica. 



Hirundo riparia. 



Atricapilla. 



Luscinia. 



Cuculus. 



Regulus non cristatus. 



Ficedulae affinis. 



USUALLY APPEARS ABOUT 



The middle of March : harsh 

 note. 



March 23 : chirps till Sep- 

 tember. 



April 13. 



Ditto. 



Ditto. 



Ditto : a sweet wild note. 



Beginning of April. 



Middle of April. 



Ditto: a sweet plaintive note. 



Ditto : mean note ; sings on 

 till September. 



