OF SELBORNE. 8y 
Tlie bane of our fcience is the comparing one animal to the 
other by memory : for want of caution in this particular ScopoU 
falls into errors : he is not fo full with regard to the manners of 
his indigenous birds as might be wifhed, as you juftly obferve: 
his Latin is eafy, elegant, and expreffive, and very fuperior to 
Kramer's 
I am pleafed to fee that my defcription of the moofe correfponds 
fo well with yours. I am, &c.. 
LETTER XXXIII. 
TO THE SAME. 
DEAR SIR, Selborne, Nov. 26, 1770. 
I WAS much pleafed to fee, among the collection of birds from 
Gibraltar, feme of thofe Ihort-winged EngUJJj fummer-birds of 
paffage, concerning whofe departure we have made fo much 
inquiry. Now if thefe birds are found in Andalufia to migrate to 
and from Barbary, it may eafily be fuppofed that thofe that come 
to us may migrate back to the continent, and fpend their winters 
in fome of the warmer parts of Europe. This is certain, that many 
foft-billed birds that come to Gibraltar appear there only in 
fpring and autumn, feeming to advance in pairs towards the 
northward, for the fake of breeding during the fummer months | 
" See liis Eknchus 'vegetabillum et animaUum per Aiifiriam iiiferiorem, &c, 
and 
