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LETTER II. 



To // 



SELBORNE, JV<w. 2W, 1769. 



EAR SIR, When I did myself the honour 

 to write to you about the end of last June 

 on the subject of natural history, I sent you 

 a list of the summer birds of passage which 

 I have observed in this neighbourhood ; and 

 also a list of the winter birds of passage : I 

 mentioned besides those soft-billed birds 

 that stay with us the winter through in the south of England, 

 and those that are remarkable for singing in the night. 



According to my proposal, I shall now proceed to such 

 birds (singing birds strictly so called) as continue in full song 

 till after Midsummer ; and shall range them somewhat in 

 the order in which they first begin to open as the spring 

 advances. 



