146 GILBEKT WHITE OF SELBOKNE 1735 



The Naturalist's Journal at this time records some 

 remarks on the fly-catcher, all of which were not in- 

 corporated into their author's book. 



" 1785, July 25. While the hen fly-catcher sits, the cock 

 feeds her all day long : he also pays attention to the former 

 brood, which he feeds at times. 



"Aug. 1 [at Meonstoke]. Ely -catchers in Mr. Mulso's 

 garden, that seem to have a nest of young. The fly-catchers 

 hover over their young to preserve them from the heat 

 of the sun. 



"[Aug.] 8, Selborne. Ely-catchers' second brood forsake 

 their nest. 



" Sept. 8. Mr. S. Barker came. Planted a Parnassia which 

 he brought out of Eutland in full bloom, in a bog at the 

 bottom of Sparrow's hanger." 



On September 4th, 1785, John Mulso forwarded a 

 criticism of his friend's lines ' On the Early and Late 

 Blowing of the Vernal and Autumnal Crocus ' — 



" I received your ' Crocus ' in its triple shape, and I like 

 it in all. The original is an ingenious thought, piously as 

 well as poetically imagined, and happily expressed. Of the 

 two translations I like the first and shortest the best, but I 

 do not approve of the stop ';' after 'summa potestas*; 'Elora- 

 rum Deus,' etc. is the answer to the question. If it is 

 added, 'whose power is supreme ' — ' cui summa potestas ' — as 

 it must be construed if stopped so strong, then 'ipse' is 

 wanted before ' temperat.' But if it intends ' whose supreme 

 power tempers' etc., then it should have no stop. It is 

 concise and just. The other, more at large, is likewise well 

 done ; but the same objection occurs at the same place. 

 And I fear that 'calet' and 'liquet' are applied as active 

 verbs, which is not usual Latin, unless I have forgot it." 



