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Fora long time I have desired my relation to loox out for these 
birds in Andalusia; and now he writes me word that, for the first 
time, he saw one dead in the market on the third of September. 
When the edicnemus flies it stretches out its legs straight behind, 
like an heron. Iam, &c. 
bE ETE RY XOX PY. 
TO THE SAME. 
SELBORNE, March 30th, 1771. 
DEAR S1R,—There is an insect with us, especially on chalky 
districts, which is very troublesome and teasing all the latter end of 
the summer, getting into people’s skins, especially those of women 
I, ATHALIA CENTIFOLIA. 2. BLACK DOLPHIN. 3. HALTICA NEMORUM. 
and children, and raising tumours which itch intolerably. This 
animal (which we call an harvest bug) is very minute, scarce 
discernible to the naked eye ; of a bright scarlet colour, and of the 
agreed with me entirely; that there is in the great bustard neither an orifice under the 
tongue, nora gular pouch. _He writes, ‘The following was the result of my dissection 
of a full-grown bustard, with the view of obtaining a preparation of the alleged gular 
pouch for the Physiological Series, No. 772, Q. (Museum of Col. of Surgeons). The head 
of a bustard, ots tarda, with the mouth and fauces exposed, showing the glandular 
orifices between the rami of the lower jaw, the tongue, glottis, internal nostrils, and 
Eustachian orifice. There is no trace of a gular pouch.’” 
