The Natural History of Selborne

Set Gunnory, the Bantam hen, on nine of her own eggs.

Set 9 Bantham’s eggs to be put under a sitting-hen at Newton.

Nep. Ben White left us.

Cuckow sings on the hill.  Nightingale sings in my outlet.

Mowed the grass-walks in part: they were crisp with hoar frost.  Cut some grass in the orchard for the horses.  Swallow on the chimney.

Cut a brace of fine cucumbers.

Pears, cherries, & plums in fine bloom along the road.  Some hundreds of martins were seen to pass over Rolle towards Geneva, & two swifts; the day was wet & cold.

Men are busy in their barley-season.

Sam White elected fellow of oriel College in Oxford.

Cloudless.  Goslings.  No swallows.