ADDENDUM 



SELBORNE, March i6tA, I773- 1 



[DEAR SIR, I am sorry our affairs do not coincide a 

 little better, so as to give us an opportunity of meeting 

 in London. According to our present plan, my Brother 

 & I propose to be there about the middle of April, at 

 w ch time it is to be feared you will be return'd into the 

 Country. I am obliged to you for your kind offer con- 

 cerning the Drawings, but cannot yet positively say which 

 in particular I would wish to have copied. I must first 

 consult some of my friends on that head, & sh d be glad 

 of your opinion in the choice of them. Linnaeus says 

 the fish w ch I am doubtful whether to call Perca, or Zeus, 

 is actually a New Genus! I have a good specimen w ch 

 you shall see ; & it will be better to draw from that than 

 my rude Outline. I shall now be glad to collect all my 

 scatter'd remarks on the Nat : Hist : of Gibraltar, & shall 

 beg the favour of seeing, once more, those Anecdotes w ch 

 I have sent you from time to time, especially those that 

 relate to the fishes, & birds. I beg your thoughts on the 

 Lepidopus. It certainly is what Gouan speaks of, tho' very 

 different in some respects. I shall have a great variety of 

 new Insects ; but I fear many more are lost by being too 

 hastily handled & examined. On examining the biggest of 

 my short-bilfd Andalusian Larks, & comparing it with the 

 British Larks here, I find it to be the real & genuine Sky 

 lark, Al. arvensis. However I hope it's past all doubt that 

 I have still two new Larks. 



1 This interesting letter of John White's occurs among the Pennant 

 Letters in the British Museum, and does not appear to have been previously 



published. [R. B. S.] 



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