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NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. 



distinctions of insects according to Linnaeus ; for I am well 

 assured that many people would study insects, could they set out 

 with a more adequate notion of those distinctions than can be 

 conveyed at first by words alone. 



LETTER XXXV. 



SELBORNE, 1771. 

 DEAR SIR, Happening to make a visit to my neighbour's 



THE COMMON PEACOCK (Pavo cristatits). 



peacocks, I could not help observing that the trains of those 

 magnificent birds appear by no means to be their tails ; those 



