LETTER II. 



'To the same. 



SELBORNE, Nov. 2/, 1769. 



EAR SIR, When I did myself the honour to 

 write to you about the end of last June on the 

 subject of natural history, I sent you a list of the 

 summer birds of passage which I have observed in 

 this neighbourhood ; and also a list of the winter 

 birds of passage : I mentioned besides those soft- 

 billed birds that stay with us the winter through 

 in the south of England, and those that are remarkable for singing 

 in the night. 



According to my proposal, I shall now proceed to such birds 

 (singing birds strictly so called) as continue in full song till after 

 Midsummer ; and shall range them somewhat in the order in which 

 they first begin to open as the spring advances. 



