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Its Wines are of a pale dufky yellow ; the rib of them is feen beay- 
tifully jointed ; and is palpably hollow. 
The Scales, which make what are call’d their hairs, or feathery 
fubftance, are very numerous, narrow, and fharp, both at the edges, 
and the point ; and they makea great appearance, becaufe, each he- 
ing compos’d of two feathers, the creature feems, in comparifon 
with the preceding, to have four wings upon cach fide. 
The creature has, when living, all the motions of the preceding 
kind, but ftronger ; as its Body feems more mufcular : and the power 
it has of raifing its Briftles, as the Porcupine, muft add greatly to 
the irritation, when it is got into a tender part. 
Whether, and how far, head-achs are to be traced from thefe little 
creatures, is a fubject yet for more enquiry ; but ’tis worth the pains. 
Many have this’ pain from the fmell of Flowers. Some have 
been found dead, with quantities of violets, and other Flowers, in 
their chamber. Phyficians have attributed thefe deaths to the power- 
‘ful odour of thofe Flowers ; but that they fhould be owing to thefe 
creatures, is much more probable. 
Whether they do, or do not, ever fly far from the Plants they in- 
habit, I have not yet found; but in the ftillnefs of the night, it 
would not be ftrange if they fhould: and that they hover round 
them I have feen: for placing: @ suung light, and a great convex 
glafs, near a pot with a growing Lupine, in a dark chamber, I have 
difcovered the air, all about the tops of the Plant, in a manner filled 
with them, moving like motes in a fun-beam. 
