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Extracts from the MiNvTE Book 
(Sierra Leona); but that refts entirely on the authority of the 
label in Sir Jofeph Banks’s collection, which may poflibly 
be erroneous. | 
Of forty fpecies of Bupreftis in the cabinet of Sir Jofeph 
Banks, none but the B. canaliculata has all the joints of the 
abdomen canaliculated ; nor is fuch a fhield to be found 
except in that fpecies and another, defcribed from the fame 
cabinet by Mr. Fabricius, during his laft ftay in England, 
under the name of feels à 
nd — 
_ 
pube EC 1788. “The Prefident laid before the “Satiety a 
. tion is, that,.a LII years fince, a pe 
drawing of a fingular Pidgeon, accompanied with the fol- 
lowing letter from Mr. Latham. 
** DEAR SIR,. 
«€ WirH this you will receive an accurate drawing, by 
& Mr. Lewin, of a Lufus Nature in a dove-houfe Pidgeon, — 
* now in my collection. 
AU I know of the hiftory of this éstraorinaet produc- 
employed to take 
* all the young birds from their holes, for the ufe of the 
* table, obferved this fingular fpecimen in one of the nefts, 
* along with another fledged in the ufual manner, the pro- 
* dice of one hatch. His curiofity being excited, he brought 
* it into the houfe; where it lived for a month or longer, 
. *& and then died. 
* The peculiarity of this fubje& confifts in its not having 
“a fingle complete feather on any part of its body, although 
“entitled from its age to have been fully fledged ; inftead of 
* which, every feathers is {till inclofed in a cafe the whole of 
“its 
