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A COMPARATIYE 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,^. Bi^nifies flowering ; I. 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 (eyythaca Europoea) sings 
Larks (alauda arverisis) congregate 
Nuthatcli (sitta Europ?8a) heard 
Winter aconite (helleborus hiemalis) fl. 
Shelles? snail or slug (liiKax) ap. 
Gray & } ^^^j f (motacilla cinerea) ap. "i 
White S \ (motacilla domestica) ap. S 
Missel thrush (inerula viscivora) sings 
Bearsfoot (hcrieboriis foetidus) fl. 
Polyanthus (primula vulgaris, var.) fl. 
Double daisy (beJiis perennis plena) fl, 
Mezereon (dapluie niezereum) fl. 
Pansie (viola tricolor) fl. 
Red dead-nettle (lamium purpureum) fl. 
Groundsel (senecio vulgaris) f.. 
Hazel (covylus avellana) ft. 
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 
ChaflSnches, male and female (spiza leucoptera) 
seen in equal numbers 
Furze or goose (iilex europaeus) fl. 
Wall flower (cheiranthus cheiri ; seu fruticulosus 
of Smith) fl. 
Stock (cheiranthus incanus) fl. 
Emberiza alba * (bunting) in great flocks 
Linnets (iinaria cannabina) congregate 
Lambs beg'in to fall 
Rooks (corvus frugilegus) resort to their nest-trees 
Black hellebore (helleborus niger) fl. 
Snow-drop (galanthus nivalis) fl. 
■WRITB. 
Jan. 1—12, 
Jan. 1—18. 
Jan. 1—14. 
Jan. 1. Feb. 18, 
Jan. 2 
Jan. 2—11. 
Jan. 2 
Jan, 2. 
Jan. 2. 
Jan. 2. 
Jan, 3. 
Jan. 3. 
Jan. 3- 
Jan. 3 - 
,lan. 3. 
Jan. 4. 
Jan. 5 
Jan. 5. 
Jan. 6. 
Jan. 6- 
Jan. 6. 
Jan. 6. 
Jan. 6. 
Jan, 6. 
;— 14- 
Feb. 14. 
April 12. 
Feb. 1 
Feb. 16. 
-21. 
-lo. 
Feb. 28. 
Feb. 18. 
,'\pri] 7. 
March 19. 
Feb. 3. 
Jan. 6—11. 
Jan. 8. Feb 1. 
Jan. 8, April 1. 
■ . 8—12. 
Jan, 9. 
, 9. 
Jan 9—11. 
Jan, 10. Feb. 11. 
Jan. 10. 
Jan. la Feb, 5. 
MARKWICK. 
Jan. 3 — 31, and again 
I Oct. 16. Feb. 9. [Oct. 6. 
March 3. April 10. 
Feb. 28. April 17. 
Jan, 16. May SI. 
jjan. 24. March 26. 
L>sc, 12, Feb. 23. 
Feb. 19. April 14. 
^IVlarch 1. May 5. 
Jan j . ,April 9. 
March i7. April 29. 
Jan. 2. April 4. 
' .1. May 10. 
Jan. 1. April. 5. 
Jan. 1. April 9. 
Jan. 2). March 11. 
Jan. 17. April 9. 
• 16. March 13. 
May 15. 
Feb. 17. March 17. 
Jan. 15. April 4. 
Jsn, 3. March. 22. 
Jan. 31. April 1], last 
[seen Dec. 30. 
Dec. 2. Feb, 3. 
Jan, 1. March 27, 
Feb. 21. May 9. 
Feb. 1. June 3. 
Jan, 11. 
Jan.- 6. Feb, 21. 
Jan 23. 
April 27. 
Jan. 18. March 1. 
* Quere, the common snow-flock (plectrophanes nivalis) ?— Ed. 
