OF SELBORNE. 
LETTER L 
TO THE HONOURABLE DAINES BARRINGTON. 
DEAR SIR, Selborne, June 30, 1769. 
W HEN I was in town lad month I partly engaged that I would 
fometime do myfelf the honour to write to you on the fubjed of 
natural hiftory : and I am the more ready to fulfil my promife, 
becaufc I fee you are a gentleman of great candour, and one that 
will make allowances ; efpecially where the writer profeffes to be 
an out-door naturalijl, one that takes his obfervations from the 
fubjed itfelf, and not from the writings of others. 
The following is a "Lis 
I have difcovered in 
zvhich they appear : 
1. Wryneck, 
2. Smalleft willow-wren, 
3. Swallow, 
4. Martin, 
5. Sand-martin, 
6. Black-cap, 
7. Nightingale, 
8. Cuckoo, 
9. Middle willow-wren, 
10. White-throat, 
T of the Summer 
this neighbourhood^ 
RAII NOMINA, 
'Jynx, fi-ve torquilla: 
Regulus non crtjlatus: 
Hirundo domejiica: 
Hirundo ruJlica: 
Hirundo riparia; 
Atricapilla : 
Lnfcinia : 
Cuculus : 
Regulus non crijtatus: 
Ficedula affnis : 
Birds o/Passage whick 
ranged fomeivhat in the order 
USUALLY APPEARS ABOUT 
{The middle of March: 
harfli note, 
^Marchz-i,: chirps till Septem- 
April 13. 
Ditto. 
Ditto. 
Ditto : a fweet wild note. 
Beginning oi April. 
Middle of April. 
Ditto : a fweet plantive note 
{Ditto: mean notej fings on 
till Septemb:r, 
II. Red-fcart, 
