OF SELBORNE. 



113 



LETTER I. 



TO THE HONOURABLE DAINES BARRINGTON. 



Selborne, June 30, 1760.. 

 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 can- 

 dour, 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. 



The following is a List of the Summer Birds of Passage which 

 I have discovered in this neighbourhood, ranged somewhat in 

 the order ivhich they appear : 



1. Wryneck, 



2. Smallest willow- 



wren, 



3. Swallow, 



4. Martin, 



5. Sand-martin, 



6. Black-cap, 



7. Nightingale, 



8. Cuckoo, 



0. Middle willow- 

 wren, 



10. White-throat, 



11. Red-start, 



HAII NOMINA. 



Jynx, sive torquilla: 



Regulus non cristatus: 



Hirundo domestica : 

 Hirundo rustica : 

 Ilirxndo riparia : 

 Atricaptila : 

 Luscinia : 

 Cticulm : 



Regulus non cristatus: 

 Ficedulce affinis : 

 Ruticilla : 



USUALLY APPEARS ABOUT 



I The middle of March : 

 } harsh note, 

 j March 23 : chirps till Sep- 

 I tembcr. 



April 13. 



Ditto. 



Ditto. 



Ditto : a sweet wild note. 



Beginning of April. 



Middle of April. 

 f Ditto: a sweet plaintive 

 \ note 



f Ditto : raean note ; sings 

 \ on till September, 

 f Ditto : more agreeable 

 I song. 



