OF SKLBOKNE. ^41 



then retained their foliage till very late in 

 the year. 



My musical friend, at whose house I am 

 now visiting, has tried all the owls that 

 are his near neighbours with a pitch-pipe 

 set at concert-pitch, and finds they all 

 hoot in B flat. He will examine the night- 

 ingales next Spring. 



I am, &c. &c. 



LETTER X. 



TO THE SAME 



DEAR SIR; Selborne, Aug. 1,1771. 



From what follows, it will appear that 

 neither owls nor cuckoos keep to one note. 

 A friend remarks that many (most) of his 

 owls hoot in B flat ; but that one went 

 almost half a note below A. The' pipe he 

 tried their notes by was a common half- 

 crown pitch-pipe, such as masters use for 



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