LETTER XX. 



'To the same. 



SELBORNE, October 8M, 1768. 



T is I find in zoology as it is in botany ; all nature 

 is so full that that district produces the greatest 

 variety which is the most examined. Several 

 birds, which are said to belong to the north only, 

 are it seems often in the south. I have dis- 

 covered this summer three species of birds with 

 us, which writers mention as only to be seen in 

 the northern counties. The first that was brought me (on the I4th 

 of May) was the sandpiper, tringa hypoleucus : it was a cock bird, 

 and haunted the banks of some ponds near the village ; and, as it 

 had a companion, doubtless intended to have bred near that water. 



