The Natural History of Selborne

Swallows still.  Glow-worms shine.

Harvest pretty well finished this evening.  Some wheat out at Harting.  Roads are much dryed.

Stares flock at Chilgrove.  Oedicnemus does not flock yet.

Swallows cluster on the bushes in the barnet.  Redstart.

These ring-ouzels are seen again in the spring in their return to the north.

People are now housing corn after 27 days interruption.

I saw a small Ichneumon-fly laying its eggs on, or in the aurelia of a papilio.

A few of these rare birds (rock-ouzels) appeared, just this time twelve months, in orchards about yew-trees.  I have not been able yet to procure a cock.

Much weat still out, & spoiled.  Much barley and oats spoiled.  Young martins still in their nest.

The whame, or barrel-fly, Oestrus bovis, still lays it’s nits on the horses sides.