The Natural History of Selborne

Grass-hopper lark chirps at eight o’ the Clock in the evening.

I saw a small Ichneumon-fly laying it’s eggs on, ir in the aurelia of a papilio.

Cut a brace of large cucumbers.

Nuthatch, sitta, makes its jarring, clattering noise in the trees.

Rooks have young.  Young ravens fledged.  Forked-tailed kite lays three eggs.  Redstart sings for the first time.

Hirundo domestica!!!

The titlark, Aladua pratorum, first sings.  It is a delicate songster; flying from tree to tree, & spreading out it’s wings it chants in it’s descent.  It also sings on trees, & on the ground walking in pasture fields.

Luscinia!

Bombylius medius.  Musca bombyliiformis dense pilosa nigra abdomine obtuso, ad latera rufo, longissimum spiculum quoddam ceu linguam ex ore protendit.  Ray’s Hist: Insect: p. 273

Black weather.  Cucumber fruit swells.  Rooks sit.  This day the dry weather has lasted a month.