APPENDIX 



Marginalia from Samuel 'Taylor Coleridge s copy of" White's 



Selborne" here -printed for the first time, with the 



assent of Mr. Ernest Hartley Coleridge. 



The figures in brackets refer to the pages of this present edition. 



THE WORKS IN NATURAL HISTORY OF THE LATE 

 REV. GILBERT WHITE, LONDON, 1802. 



Vol. I. p. 63 [56]. But with regard to their migration, what difficulties attend 

 that supposition ! That such feeble bad fliers (who the summer long never flit but 

 from hedge to hedge) should be able to traverse vast seas and continents in order 

 to enjoy milder seasons amidst the regions of Africa! 



Note. Surely from Dover to Calais, and from Gibraltar (or even Toulon) to 

 the coast of Barbary, cannot be called a traverse of vast seas. 



Vol. I. p. 168 [140]. Bullfinches, when fed on hempseed, often become 

 wholly black. 



Note. I saw a canary bird at Blumenbach's in Gottingen, which the Professor 

 had changed to a bright black by the same food. 



Vol. I. p. 194 [159]. Virgil, as a familiar occurrence, by way of simile, describes 

 a dove haunting the cavern of a rock in such engaging numbers, that I cannot 

 refrain from quoting the passage ; and John Dryden has rendered it so happily in 

 our language, that without farther excuse I shall add his translation also : 



l; Squalls spelunca lubiro commota Columba, 

 Cm domuf, et Juices latebroso in pumice nidi t 

 Fertur in ar-va iiolans, plausumque exterrita pennis 

 Dat tecto ingentem mcx acre lafsa quieto, 

 Radit iter liquidum, celeres neque commovet alas." 



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