White Owls 



LETTER XV. 



70 the same. 



SELBORNE, July St/>, 1773. 



EAR SIR, Some young men went down lately to 

 a pond on the verge of Wolmer Forest to hunt 

 flappers, or young wild-ducks, many of which 

 they caught, and, among the rest, some very 

 minute yet well-fledged wild-fowls alive, which 

 upon examination I found to be teals. I did not 

 know till then that teals ever bred in the south of 



England, and was much pleased with the discovery : this I look 



upon as a great stroke in natural history. 



