. L'histoire naturelle de Selborne [microform]. Histoire naturelle ; sciences naturelles. L'histoire naturelle de Selborne 55 '*k. SilkCail la mention de haws me met dans l'esprit qu'il y a un total échec de ce fruit sauvage, donc propice à l'appui d'un grand nombre de nation à ailes. Pour le même temps rigoureux, à la fin du printemps, qui couper tous les produits de la plus tendre et curieux arbres, détruit aussi celle de la commune et plus robustes. Certains oiseaux, hantise avec le missel-grives, et d'alimentation sur les fruits de l'arbre d'if, qui répond à la description de l'merula torquata^ ou r

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. The natural history of Selborne [microform]. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. The Natural History of Selborne 5 5 '*k. SilkCail The mention of haws puts me in mind that there is a total failure of that wild fruit, so conducive to the support of many of the winged nation. For the same severe weather, late in the spring, which cut ofF all the produce of the more tender and curious trees, destroyed also that of the more hardy and common. Some birds, haunting with the missel-thrushes, and feeding on the berries of the yew tree, which answered to the description of the merula torquata^ or ring-ouzel, were lately seen in this neigh- bourhood. I employed some people to procure me a specimen, but without success. (See Letter XX.) Query.—Might not canary birds be naturalised to this climate, provided their eggs were put, in the spring, into the nests of some of their congeners, as goldfinches, greenfinches, &c. ? Before winter perhaps they might be hardened, and able to shift for themselves. About ten years ago I used to spend some weeks yearly at Sunbury, which is one of those pleasant villages lying on the Thames, near Hampton Court. In the autumn, I could not help being much amused with those myriads of the swallow kind which assemble in those parts. But what struck me most was, that, from the time they began to congregate, forsaking the chimneys and houses, they roosted every night in the osier-beds of the aits [eyots] of that river. Now this resorting towards that element, at that. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.. White, Gilbert, 1720-1793; Allen, Grant, 1848-1899. London; New York : J. Lane

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