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FROM THE REV. JOHN WHITE TO HIS BROTHER GILBERT 

 (with reference to Linnaeus' s last Letter.) 



DEAR BRO. 



ABOVE you have the old Professor's last epistle. You will 

 see that Sturnus collaris, Scop., is not a new bird ; that 

 Linn, allows it not to be a Sturnus but a Muscicapa ; and 

 that he makes a strange mistake in supposing I could take it 

 for Turdus arund. That which Mr. Pennant and you called 

 Turdus arund. or Junco of Ray is mark'd in the margin 4 ; 

 and Linn, agrees with me in calling it a Motacilla. He seems 

 satisfied now about the Pratinc. Gouan's new genus Lepa- 

 dogaster turns out to be nothing more than Cydopterus nudus, 

 Linn. Tanta est discordia Doctorum. Linn, seems now so 

 fond of the specific Calpensis, that he will put that and 

 Whiteij I suppose, to all my nondescripts. He is wrong in 

 saying only 2, 3 maculatis albis in the tail of Hirundo rupest. 

 It ought to be 2, 3, 4, 5. 



LETTER X. 



FROM THE REV. JOHN WHITE TO LINNAEUS. 



VIRO ILLUSTRISSIMO CAROLO LINN^EO. 



S. pi. dat Joannes White. 



NULLA equidem ex re tantum et voluptatis et Scientise Natu- 

 ralis verse cultures, quantum ex scriptis literisq. tuis, Yir 

 clarissime, recipio. Yerba tua novissima de Syst. Nat. nova 

 editione imprimenda ad Fratrem meum Londinensem man- 

 davi. At ille nummos prorsus ullos pro exemplari tuo offerre 

 jam reformidat. Timet enim ne editio hsec reformata, Ba- 

 tavorum Grermanorumq. typis furtivis vilioribusq., non sine 

 damno suo ? extemplo prodeat contaminata. Quicquid igitur 

 in sostrum velles rogare, te prius nominare oportebit, ut ipse 

 inde sciat an periculum sibi erit faciendum. 



Ad Faunam meam Calpensem perficiendam quotidie adhuc 



