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from the train of artillery encamped in his park, that he may try 

 experiments with some of the ordnance." This year, 1792, has, 

 April 18th, a Swift, which seems miraculous, but no doubt did 

 happen. Also wild mushrooms at the same time, April 13th, 

 1792. In 1793 we seem to enter the valley of the shadow. But 

 he was still in full vigour, both of mind and body. 



To the last the diary was posted up, and prepared till within 

 three days of the actual death, June 26th, 1793. He saw his last 

 Flycatcher May 24th that year, remarking that it was four days 

 late. His last extended entry is June 9th, 1793. " The water at 

 Kingsley Mill begins to fail. The land spring in the Stoney lane, 

 as you go to Rood, stops. We draw much water for the garden ; 

 the well sinks very fast. The ground all as hard as iron ; we can 

 sow nothing, nor plant out." June 14th. Mr. John Mulso, the 

 old Winchester College boy, Prebendary of Winchester and 

 Salisbury, and brother of Mrs. Chapone (Hester Mulso), White's 

 oldest college friend at Oriel, Oxford, came for a last glimpse, and 

 his old friend notes in his very last entries : " June 14 Mr. John 

 Mulso came, June 15 Mr. J. Mulso left us." Probably he helped 

 his friend, as a clergyman should, at the last. And so the 

 naturalist of Selborne slept, in the midst of his vigour. 



At the Commemoration of his Centenary Anniversary, at 

 Selborne on June 24th, 1893, several considered the view that 

 Gilbert White belonged to Hants and Sussex conjointly as 

 visionary and untenable. But in view of the facts above stated, 

 what must be the verdict ? Was Gilbert White a Sussex 

 naturalist or not ? 



ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM LEICESTERSHIRE. 



By F. B. Whitlock. 



The following notes are the result of frequent visits to the 

 neighbourhood of Loughborough during the last two or three 

 years. They do not pretend to be of any special interest, but, as 

 field-naturalists are few and far between in the north of the 

 county, they may be worth recording. 



1890. 

 Hawfinches were not uncommon during the breeding season ; 

 several nests were found in one small wood. In previous years, 



