The Natural History of Selborne

Mackrels cryed in the streets.  Asparagus falls to 4s per hundred.  Apricots, small green.

Cabbages begin to turn in.  Prawns plenty.

Received from Selborne 12 brace of fair cucumbers.

Fresh ling.  Hollibut.  Inyx.

Some mackrels.

Dutch plaice abound. Turbots.

Herrings abound, & are the usual forerunners of mackerels.

Hirundo apus!!!  Blackcap has a most sweet and mellow note.  The redstarts frequent orchards & gardens: the white throats are scattered all over the fields far from neighbourhoods.  Their notes are mean & much a like; short & without much variety.  The whitethroat is a most common bird.  Young thrushes.  The large species of bats appears.  Nightingales abound.

Regulus on cristatus voce stridula locustae.  This is the largest of the three willow wrens: it haunts the tops of tall trees making a shivering noise & shaking its wings.  It’s colours are more vivid than those of the other two species.

Oedicnemus sings late at night.