The Natural History of Selborne

Regulus non crist: major: Shaking its wings it makes at intervals a sibilous noise on the tops of the tallest beeches.

Sand-martins abound at the sand-pit at short heath.

Some few beeches in the Hanger shew a small tinge of verdure.

White-throat returns & whistles.  Golden-crested wren whistles: his note is as minute as his person.

Grass crisp, with a white frost.  Cut first cucumber, a large fruit.  Harsh wind.  Sowed annuals.

Drying & cold.  Black-caps abound.

Ground dries, & binds up very hard.

Barley-fields like to be very wet, & lumpy.

Conops calcitrans.  Grass very forward in the fields.  The ring dove cooes, & hangs about on the wing in a toying manner.

Martins appear but do not frequent houses.  Black cap whistles.  Showers about.  Swift returns.  Planted potatoes, four rows. Sowed box of polyanth-seed from London.  Sowed annuals.