The Natural History of Selborne

Young broods of goldfinches appear.

Sweet harvest weather.  Helleborus viridis begins to wither.  Brisk gale of wind.

Wheat harvest is pretty general.  The male and female flying ants, leaving their nests, fill the air.  See Gould on ants.

Young pheasants are flyers.  White butter-flies gather in flocks on the mud of puddles.

Cold dew.  Mulberry begins to cast some leaves.  Tops of beeches in the hanger begin to look pale.

The whame, or barrel-fly of Derham, lays nits or eggs on the legs and sides of horses at grass.  See physicotheology.

Rock-like clouds.  Oats & pease are cutting.

Vast storms about.  Crickets are silent.

Gathered frenchbeans.

Threat’ning clouds at a distance, but most delicate ripening weather.