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SHE liberty I now pm of eebublife the boity with what 
` may appear to many a trifling object, is, however, one among 
many other proofs of the utility of its inftitution; as affording a 
 repofitory, or centre of communication, always open for the recep- 
| tina of detached tracts in Natural Hiftory ; which, if deemed of fmall 
“importance in fuch inftances as the prefent, is more than balanced 
by the utility of others that might be entirely buried in oblivion, 
for want of a ready and convenient mode of introduction to the 
“public, without the obligation of writing a formal differtation 
which perhaps neither time, nor want of Prop aid E accefs to 
books, inar alloy cc bea is iat fiti 
3 
Having. lately Rea a gentleman, remarkable for ree fkill- 
Ronan; and not lefs curious in his obfervations, relate that he 
had more than once, on opening the crop of the Corvorant (Pele~ 
canus Carbo, Linn.), found a large quantity of worms in it, I en- 
gaged him to fend me a few. He informed me, that they lay coiled 
together into a ball or congeries (as I believe is ufually the cafe) of 
a cM fize, in fome equal to that of an egg. It was not, however, 
from the Corvorant only, but from the Shag alfo, that thefe worms 
i Nes taken. They were promifcuoufly put into a phial, and do not 
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