Natural History of Selborne

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A COMPARATIVE VIEW

OF THE

CALENDAR OF NATURE,

AS KEPT BY THE REV. G. WHITE AT SELBORNE IN HAMPSHIRE, AND WILLIAM MARKWICK, ESQ., AT CATSFIELD, NEAR BATTLE IN SUSSEX, FROM 1768 TO 1793.

Of the abbreviations used, fl. signifies flowering; l. leafing; and ap. the first appearance; the dates, when more than one, express the earliest and latest times at which the circumstance was observed.

Redbreast (erythaca Europa) sings
Larks (alauda arvensis) congregate
Nuthatch (sitta Europa) heard
Winter aconite (helleborus hiemalis) f.
Shelless snail or slug (limax) ap.
Gray &>

White Wagtail (motacilla cinerea) ap.
(motacilla domestica) ap.

Missel thrush (merula viscivora) sings
Bearsfoot (helleborus foetidus) fl.
Polyanthus (primula vulgaris, var.) fl.
Double daisy (bellis perennis plena) f.
Mezereon (daphne mezereum) fl.
Pansie (viola tricolor) fl.

Red dead-nettle (lamium purpureum) fl.
Groundsel (senecio vulgaris) f..

Hazel (corylus avellana) fi.

Hepatica (anemone hepatica) fl.

Hedge dunnock (accentor modularis) sings

Common flies (musca domestica) seen in numbers

Greater titmouse (parus hortensis) sings

Thrush (merula musica) sings

Insects swarm under sunny hedges

Primrose (primula vulgaris) fl.

Bees (apis mellifica) ap.

Gnats play about

Chaffinches, male and female (spiza leucoptera)

seen in equal numbe s

Furze or goose (nlex europæus) fl.

Wall flower (cheiranthus cheiri; seu fruticulosus of Smith) fl.

WHITE.

Jan. 1-12.

Jan. 1-18.

Jan. 1-14. Jan. 1. Feb. 18. Jan. 2

Jan. 2-11.

Jan. 2-14.

Jan. 2. Feb. 14.

Jan. 2. April 12. Jan. 2. Feb. 1 Jan. 3. Feb. 16.

Jan. 3.

Jan. 3-21.
Jan. 3--15.

Jan. 3. Feb. 28.
Jan. 4. Feb. 18.
Jan. 5--12.
Jan. 5. Feb. 3.
Jan. 6. Feb. 6.
Jan. 6-22.
Jan. 6.

Jan. 6. April 7.
Jan. 6. March 19.
Jan. 6. Feb. 3.

Jan. 6-11. Jan. 8. Feb 1.

Jan. 8. April 1. Jan. 8-12. Jan. 9.

Jan. 9.

Jan. 9-11.

Jan. 10. Feb. 11.
Jan. 10.

Jan. 10. Feb. 5.

MARKWICK.

Jan. 3-31, and again
Oct. 16. Feb. 9. [Oct. 6.
March 3. April 10.
Feb. 28. April 17.
Jan. 16. May 31.
Jan. 24. March 26.
Dec. 12. Feb. 23.
Feb. 19. April 14.
March 1. May 5.
Jan. 1. April 9.
March 17. April 29.
Jan. 2. April 4.
Jan. 1. May 10.
Jan. 1. April. 5.
Jan. 1. April 9.
Jan. 21. March 11.
Jan. 17. April 9.
Jan. 16. March 13.
May 15.

Feb. 17. March 17.
Jan. 15. April 4.

Quere, the common snow-flock (plectrophanes nivalis) ?—Ed.

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Yellow Wagtail (budytes flavissima) ap.
Honeysuckle (lonicera pericly menum) 1.

Jan 17.

Jan. 18. Feb. 8.

Jan. 13. March 18.

Jan. 21.

Jan. 22.

Jan. 22-24.

Jan. 23.

Jan. 23 March 5.
Jan. 23. Feb. 1.
Jan. 24. Feb. 21.
Jan. 24. Feb. 15.
Jan. 25. March 4.
Jan. 25. April 14.

Jan. 25.

Field or procumbent speedwell (veronica agrestis) fl. Jan. 27. March 15.

Nettle butterfly (vanessa urticæ) ap.

White wagtail (motacilla domestica) chirps
Shell-snail (helix nemoralis) ap.

Earth-worms engender

Barren strawberry (fragaria sterilis) fl.
Blue tit (parus cæruleus) chirps

Brown wood-owls hoot

Hen (gallus domesticus) sits

Jan. 27. April 2.
Jan. 28.

Jan. 28. Feb. 24.

Jan. 30.

Feb 7. June 12.

Jan 20. March 19.

Jan. 12. Feb. 27, sings till

[Nov. 13. Feb. 28. April 17. Feb. 12. April 19, last seen [Nov. 24.

Jan. 27. March 11.
Jan. 28. June 5.
Jan. 21. Feb. 26.

April 13. July 3, last seen
Jan. 1. April 9. [Sept. 3.
Feb. 12. March 29.
March 5. April 24, last
March 16. [seen June 6
April 2. June 11.

Green woodpecker (picus viridis) makes a loud cry Feb. 13. March 23.

European thicknee (oedicnemus Europaeus) clamours Feb. 27. April 24.

Feb. 27.
Feb. 27. April 5.
February.

Feb. 28. March 24.
Feb. 28. March 22.

Jan. 1. May 10.

May 19, young brought

[forth.
Feb. 18. April 28.
Feb. 13. March 8, last seen
Jan. 1 April 17. [Dec. 24.
April 1, has young ones.
Feb. 2. April 11. [June 1.
Feb. 18. April 13.
Feb. 28. March 5.
Feb. 16. March 20.
Feb. 8. March 31.
February 8.

Jan. 25. March 26.
Feb. 28. May 5.
Feb. 23. May 6, last seen
[Oct. 28.
April 27. June 17.

Feb. 26. April 18.
Feb. 27. April 11.
March 9. April 20.
Feb. 7. April 5.

June 17.
Jan. 25. March 26.
March 2. August 10.
Feb. 28. April 5.
March 15. July 1.
Feb. 9. April 10, tadpoles
[March 19

Fumaria bulbosa, fl.

Elm (ulmus campestris) fil.

Turkey (meleagris gallopavo) lays

House pigeons (columba livia) sit Marsh marigold (caltha palustris) fl. Buzz Ay (bombylius medius) ap. Bank swallow (hirundo riparia) ap. Snake (natrix torquatus) ap.

Horse ant (formica herculeana) ap.

Greenfinch (fringilla chloris) sings
Ivy (hedera helix) berries ripe
Periwinkle (vinca minor) fl.
Spurge laurel (daphne laureola) fl.
Swallow (hirundo garrula) ap.
Black-cap (ficedula atricapilla) heard

Young ducks hatched

[seen Oct. 26.

March 18. April 13. Feb. 23. April 28.
March 19. April 13

March 19.
March 19. April 4.
March 19. April 7.

March 20.
March 20. April 14.
March 21. April 28.

March 30. May 16, sits
[May 27, last seen Oct. 23.

Feb. 17. April 25.
March 18-25, sits April
[4, young ones April 30.
March 20 young hatched.
March 22. May S.
March 15. April 30.

March 21. April 12. April 8. May 16, last

March 22-30.

[seen Sept. 8. March 3. April 29, last [seen Oct. 2.

March 22. April 18. Feb. 4. March 26, last
[seen Nov. 12.
March 22. April 22 March 6. April 26.
March 23. April 14. Feb. 16. May 19.
March 25.
Feb. 6. May 7.
March 25. April 1. April 12-22.
March 26. April 29. April 7-27, last seen
[Nov. 16.
March 26. May 4. April 14. May 18, seen.
April 14. May 20, last
seen Sept 19.
April 6. May 16.
Feb. 7. March 27.
April 14. May 8, last
[seen Dec. 8.
March 13. April 24.
March 29. April 19.

March 27.

Golden saxifrage (chrysosplenium oppositifolium) f. March 27. April 9. Eave swallow (hirundo urbica) ap.

March 28 May 1.

March 29. April 22.
March 29.

March 30. April 22. Feb. 26. April 26.
March 30. April 17. October 11.
March 31. April 30. April 12. May 20.

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