LETTER II 

 TO THE SAME 



SELBORNE, Nov. 2nd, 1 1769. 



DEAR SIR, When I did myself the honour to write to 

 you about the end of last June on the subject of natural 

 history, I sent you a list of the summer birds of passage 

 which I have observed in this neighbourhood ; and also a 

 list of the winter-birds of passage : I mentioned besides 

 those soft-billed birds that stay with us the winter through 

 in the south of England, and those that are remarkable for 

 singing in the night. 



According to my proposal, I shall now proceed to such 

 birds (singing birds strictly so called) as continue in full 

 song till after Midsummer ; and shall range them somewhat 

 in the order in which they first begin to open as the spring 

 advances. 



RAII NOMINA. 



1 Date of original letter Nov. 9th. [R. B. S.] 



2 As Mr. Harting has pointed out [ed. Selborne p. 140], Gilbert White did 

 not distinguish the Tree Pipit from the Meadow Pipit. [R. B. S.] 



