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lay but {hallow, and within the influence of the fun, juft under
a little heap of frefti-mowed mould, like that which is raifed
by ants.
When mole-crickets fly they move “ car/« undofo,” rifing and
falling in curves, like the other fpecies mentioned before. In
different parts of this kingdom people call them fen-cricket's, churr-
ivorms, and eve-churrs, all very appofite names .
Anatomifts, who have examined the inteftines of thefe infedts,
aftonilh me with their accounts; for they fay that, from the
ftru&ure, pofition, and number of their ftomachs, or maws,
there feems to be good reafon to fuppofe that this and the two
former fpecies ruminate ox chew the end like many quadrupeds !
L E T T E R XL1X.
TO TH E S AM E .
Selborne, May 7, 1779.
I t is now more than forty years that I have paid fome attention to
the ornithology of this diftridt, without being able to exhauft the
fubjeft: new occurrences ftill arife as long as any inquiries are
kept alive.
In the laft week of laft month five of thofe moft rare birds, too
uncommon to have obtained an Englijh name, but known to naturalifts