The Natural History of Selborne

Lanius minor ruffus, red-backed butcher-bird, shot near the village.  It’s gizzard was full of the legs & parts of beetles.

Rudiments of wasps’ nests are found.  No chaffers, or tree beetles, appear yet.  The wasps’ nest contained eleven eggs in eleven cells.

Young wood-larks come forth.  My apple trees are but poorly blown.

Returned to Selborne.  Melon-fruit in bloom.  A brace of sand-pipers (tringa minor) at James Knight’s ponds.

Green gooseberries.