LETTER I 



TO THE HONOURABLE DAINES BARRINGTON 



Selborne, June 30, 1769. 



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 candour, 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 which they appear: 



