APPENDIX 



Marginalia from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's copy of 



" White's Selborne" here printed for the first 



time, with the assent of Mr. Ernest 



Hartley Coleridge. 



The figures in brackets refer to the pages of this present 

 edition. 



THE WORKS IN NATURAL HISTORY OF THE LATE 

 REV. GILBERT WHITE, LONDON, 1802. 



Vol. I. p. 63 [58]. But with regard to their migration, what 

 difficulties attend that supposition ! That such feeble bad fliers 

 (who the summer long never flit but from hedge to hedge) should 

 be able to traverse vast seas and continents in order to enjoy 

 milder seasons amidst the regions of Africa / 



Note. Surely from Dover to Calais, and from Gibraltar (or even 

 Toulon) to the coast of Barbary, cannot be called a traverse of 

 vast seas. 



Vol. I. p. 1 68 [142]. Bullfinches, when fed on hempseed, often 

 become wholly black. 



Note.\ saw a canary bird at Blumenbach's in Gottingen, which 

 the Professor had changed to a bright black by the same food. 



Vol. I. p. 194 [161]. Virgil, as a familiar occurrence, by way of 

 simile, describes a dove haunting the cavern of a rock in such 



