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A COMPARATIVE VIEW 
CALENDAR OF NATURE, 
AS KEPT BY THE REV. G. WHITE AT SELBORNE IN HAMP- 
SHIRE, AND WILLIAM MARKWICK, ESQ., AT CATSFIELD 
NEAR BATTLE IN SUSSEX, FROM 1768 TO 1793. 
Of the abbreviations used, fl. signifies flowering; h leafing; and ap. the first appearance; the 
dates, when more than one, express the earliest and latest times at which the circumstance 
was observed. 
Redbreast (erythaca Europoea) sings 
Larks (alauda arvensis) congregate 
Nuthatch (sitta Europaea) heard 
Winter aconite (helleborus hiemalis) fl. 
Shelless snail or slug (limax) ap. 
Gray & } , -if (motacilla cinerea) ap. ^ 
White S i (motacilla domestica) ap. 3 
Missel ithrusli (merula viscivora) sings 
Bearsfoot (helleborus foetidus) fl. 
Polyanthus (primula vulgaris, var.) fl. 
Double daisy (bellis perennis plena) fl, 
Mezereon (daphne mezereum) fl. 
Pansie (viola tricolor) fl. 
Red dead-nettle (lamium purpureum) fl. 
Groundsel (senecio vulgaris) fl. 
Hazel (corylus avellana) fl. 
Hepatica (anemone hepatica) fl. 
Hedge dunnock (accentor modularis) sings 
Common flies (musca domestica) seen in numbers 
Greater titmouse (parus hortensis) sings 
Thrush (merula musica) sings 
Insects swarm under sunny hedges 
Primrose (primula vulgaris) fl. 
Bees (apis mellifica) ap 
Gnats play about 
Chaffinches, male and female (spiza leucoptera) 
seen in equal numbers 
Furze or gorse (ulex europaeus) fl. 
Wall-flower (cheiranthus cheiri ; seu fruticuiosus 
of Smith) fl. 
Stock (cheiranthus incanus) fl. 
Emberiza alba* (bunting) in great flocks 
Linnets (linaria cannabina) congregate 
Lambs begin to fall 
Rooks (corvus frugilegus) resort to their nest-trees 
Black hellebore (helleborus niger) fl. 
Snow-drop (galanthus nivalis) fl. 
WHITB 
MARKWICK. 
Jan. 1—12. 
Jan. 3 — ,31, and again 
Jan. 1—18. 
Oct. 16, Feb. 9. [Oct. 6. 
Jan. 1—14. 
March 3. April 10. 
Jan. 1. Feb, 18. 
Feb. 28. April 17. 
Jan. 2 
Jan. 16. May 31. 
Jan. 2—11. ^ 
Jan. 24. March 26. 
Dec. 12. Feb. 23. 
Jan. 2—14. 
Feb. 19. April 14. 
Jan. 2. Feb. 14. 
March 1. May 5. 
Jan. 2. Aprii 12. 
Jan. 1. April 9. 
Jan. 2. Feb. 1 
March J7. April 29. 
Jan. 3. Feb. 16. 
Jan. 2. April 4. 
Jan. 3. 
Jan. 1. May 10. 
Jan. 3—21. 
Jan. 1. April. 5. 
Jan. 3 — 15. 
Jan. 1. April 9. 
Jan. 3. Feb. 28. 
Jan. 2]. March 11. 
Jan. 4. Feb. 18. 
Jan. 17. April 9. 
Jan. 5—12. 
Jan. 16. March 13. 
Jan. 5. Feb. 3. 
May 15. 
Jan. 6. Feb. 6. 
Feb. 17. March 17. 
Jan. 6—22. 
Jan. 6. 
Jan. 15. April 4. 
Jan. 6. April 7. 
Jan. 3. March. 22. 
Jan. 6. March 19. 
Jan. 31. April U, last 
Jan. 6. Feb. 3. 
[seen Dec. 30. 
Jan. 6—11. 
Dec. 2. Feb. 3. 
Jan. 8. Feb 1. 
Jan. 1. March 27 
Jan. 8. April 1. 
Feb. 21. May 9. 
Jan. 8—12. 
Feb. 1. June 3. 
Jan. 9. 
Jan. 9. 
Jan. 11. 
Jan. 9—11. 
Jan. 6. Feb. 21. 
Jan. 10. Feb. 11. 
Jan 23. 
Jan. 10. 
April 27. 
Jan. 10. Feb. 5. 
Jan. 18. March 1. 
* Quere, the common snow-flock (plectrophanes nivalis) ? Ed. 
