The Natural History of Selborne

A grosbeak was shot near the village.  They sometimes come to us in the winter.

Strong N. auroras tho’ the moon was very bright.

The shortest day: a truly black, & dismal one.

Missel thrush sings merrily every morning.  Song thrush very loud.  A new magpie’s nest, near finished was found in a coppice: this soft season reminds birds of nidification.

Baromr 30.  Still, dark, & spitting, deep fog.  When the baromr gets very high, it is often attended with black spitting weather.

Summer-like: the air is full of gossamer, & insects.

Few worms lie-out on the common.

Vat condensations on walls & wainscot, which run in streams; these things are colder than the warm wet air.

Worms lie-out very thick on the walks, & grass-plot; many in copulation.  They are very venereous, & seem to engender all the year.

When the thermr is at 50 flies & phalaenae come-out, & bats are often stirring.  Beetles flie.