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low, and within the influence of the sun, just under 
a little heap of fresh-moved mould, like that which 
is raised by ants. : 
When mole-crickets fly they move cursu undoso, 
rising and falling in curves, like the other species 
mentioned before. In different parts of this king. 
dom people call them fern-crickets, churr-worms, 
and eve-churrs, all very apposite names. 
Anatomists, who have examined the intestines 
ef these insects, astonish me with their accounts ; 
for they say that from the structure, position, and 
number of their stomachs or maws, there seems to 
be good reason to suppose that this and the two 
former species ruminate, or chew the cud like 
many quadrupeds ! 
LETTER XLY. 
Selborne, May 7, 1779. 
Ir is now more than forty years that I have paid 
some attention to the ornithology of this district, 
without being able to exhaust the subject: new 
occurrences still arise as long as any inquiries are 
kept alive. 
In the last week of last month, five of those 
most rare birds, too uncommon to have obtained 
an English name, but known to naturalists by the 
terms of Himantopus, or loripes, and charadrius 
himantopus, were shot upon the verge of Frimsham 
Pond, a large lake belonging to the Bishop of Win- 
chester, and lying between Wolmer Forest and the 
town of Farnham, in the county of Surrey. The 
