114 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. 



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. 



LETTER IL 



SELBORNE, Nov. 2n^ 1769. 



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. 



1. Woodlark, 



2. Song-thrush, 



3. Wren, 



4. Redbreast, 



BAII NOMINA. 



Alauda arlorea, 



f In Janu 

 -! to sin 

 [ summ 



didus. 



fat** troglodyte. 

 Rubecula. 



January, and continues 

 sing through all the 

 summer and autumn. 

 (^ In February and on to 



t August ; reassume their 

 song in autumn. 

 / All the year, hard frost ex- 

 Ditto. 



