J^andralt 



orCorncrake 



LETTER LV. 



^^ 



T'o the same. 



October lot 6, 1781. 



EAR SIR, I think I have observed before that 

 much of the most considerable part of the house- 

 martins withdraw from hence about the first week 

 in October ; but that some, the latter broods I am 

 now convinced, linger on till towards the middle 

 of that month; and that at times, once perhaps 

 in two or three years, a flight, for one day only, 

 has shown itself in the first week in November. 1 



Having taken notice in October, 1780, that the last flight was 

 numerous, amounting perhaps to one hundred and fifty; and that 



1 The Hit -undines possessed a peculiar and fatal fascination for White. The 

 suggestion at the end of this letter is one more contribution of a straw to his 

 favourite mare's nest. ED. 



