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and the Garden. Fauna, however, was not for- 

 gotten — 



"July 16. A great rain at Hazelmere where I was then. 

 Several fern owls or goatsuckers flying about in the evening 

 at Blackdown House. 



"July 21. The glow-worms no longer shine on the 

 Common: in June they were very frequent. I once saw 

 them twinkle in the South Hams of Devon as late as the 

 middle of September. 



"July 28. The goldfinch, yellow hammer, and skylark 

 are the only birds that continue to sing. The redbreast 

 is just beginning. The field-crickets in the Lythe cry no 

 longer. 



" August 30. The water wagtail seems to be the smallest 

 English bird that walks with one leg at a time : the rest 

 of that size and under all hop two legs together." 



In September her nephew visited Mrs. Snooke at 

 Kingmer, near Lewes. During an eight hours' rain 

 he '* lay-by at Brighthelmstone." In a lane *' towards 

 the sea, near a village called Whiting," he discovered 

 what he believed to be the Burnet-rose, and notes 

 the wheatears on the Sussex down — 



"Vast quantities are caught by the shepherds in the 

 season (about the beginning of Harvest) ; and yet no numbers 

 are ever seen together, they not being gregarious." 



Eeturning to Selborne he ** examined the wild 

 black Hellebore, an uncommon Plant in general, 

 but very common in Selborne Wood."^ 



* Two species of Hellebore, foetidus and viridis, are recorded in his copy of 

 Hudson's ' Flora Anglica, ' with the usual + and in addition the mark ! 



