4 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE 



RAII NOMINA. 



11. Wild-duck, Anas torquata minor. \ 



12. Pochard, Anas f era fusca. 



13. Wigeon, Penelope. >On our lakes and streams. 2 



15. Cross-beak, Coccothraustes. } These are onl y. wanderers that 



16. Gross-bill, Loxia. \ a PP ea r occasionally and are 



17. Silk-tail, Garrulus bohemicus. \ n l observant of any regular 



/ migration. 



These birds, as they stand numerically, belong to the 

 following Linncean genera : 



i, 2, 3, Turdus. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, Anas. 



4, Corvus. 15, 16, Loxia. 



5, 6, 7, Scolopax. 17, Ampelis. 

 8, Columba. 



Birds that sing in the night are but few. 



Nightingale, Luscinia. " In shadiest covert hid." MILTON. 



Woodlark, Alauda arborea. Suspended in mid air. 



Less reed-sparrow, Passer arundinaceus minor. Among reeds and willows. 3 



I should now proceed to such birds as continue to sing 

 after Midsummer, but, as they are rather numerous, they 

 would exceed the bounds of this paper : besides, as this is 

 now the season for remarking on that subject, I am willing 

 to repeat my observations on some birds concerning the 

 continuation of whose song I seem at present to have some 

 doubt. 



[I am, with 

 the greatest esteem, 

 y r most obedient 

 and humble servant, 



GIL : WHITE.] 



[If you favour me with an 

 answer, please to direct at 

 Selborne, near Alton.] 



1 See vol. i. p. 30, note. Teal still nest in Wolmer Forest. Cf. Mr. W. H. 

 Hudson's article in Longmans' Magazine for August 1897. [R. B. S.] 



2 In the original MS. Gilbert White adds the following: "Brent-goose, 

 Brenta ; Sea-pheasant, Anas caudacuta ; Golden-eye, Anas platyrhynchos ; 

 Sheldrake, Tadorna ; Dun scoter, Anas niger ; with three or four more species of 

 Anates which the Southampton fishermen call by the general name of curs" 

 [R. B. S.] 



8 Acrocephalus phragmitis. See p. 2, note 3. [R. B. S.] 



