A COMPARATIVE VIEW 



NATURALIST'S CALENDAR, 



AS KEPT AT SELBORNE, IN HAMPSHIRE, BY THE LATE 

 REV. GILBERT WHITE, M. A. 



AND AT CATSFIELD, NEAR BATTLE, IN SUSSEX, BY 

 WILLIAM MA11KWICK, ESQ. F. L. S. 



FROM THE YEAR 1768, TO THE YEAR 1793. 



N. B. The dates in the following calendars, when more than one, express the earliest and thi 

 latest times in which the circumstance noted was observed. 



Of the abbreviations used, fl. signifies flowering ; 1. leafing ; and ap. the first appearance. 



Redbreast (sylvia rubecula) sings 



Larks (alauda arvensis) congregate 

 Nuthatch (sitta europaea) heard 

 Winter aconite (lielleborus hiemalis) fl. 

 Shelless snail or slug (Umax) ap. 

 Gray &7 wn/> .4. nil C (mot acilla boarula) ap. 

 White j wa t{ul i(motacillaalba)ap. 

 Missel thrush (turdus viscivorus) sings 

 Bearsfoot (lielleborus fcetidus) fl. 

 Polyanthus (primula polyantha) fl. 

 Double daisy (bellis perennis plena) fl. 

 Mezereon (daphne mezereum) fl. 

 Pansie (viola tricolor) fl. 

 Red dead-nettle (laniium purpureum) fl. 

 Groundsel (senecio vulgaris) fl. 

 Hazel (corylus avellana) fl. 

 Hepatica (anemone hcpatica) fl. 

 Hedge sparrow (sylvia modularis) sings 

 Common flies (nausea domestica) seen in 



numbers 



Greater titmouse (parus major) sings 

 Thrush (turdus musicus) sings 

 Insects swarm under sunny hedges 

 Primrose (primula vulgaris) fl. 

 Bees (apis meliifica) ap. 



Gnats play about 



Chaffinches, male and female, (fringilla 



ccelebs) seen in equal numbers 

 Furze or gorse (ulex enropaeus) fl. 



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