io6 The Natural History of Selborne 



or cat, came in, it fell to hissing, and filled the room with such 

 nauseous effluvia as rendered it hardly supportable. Thus 

 the squnck, or stonck [skunk], of Ray's " Synop. Quadr." 

 is an innocuous and sweet animal ; but, when pressed hard 

 by dogs and men, it can eject such a most pestilent and 

 fetid smell and excrement, than which nothing can be more 

 horrible. 



A gentleman sent me lately a fine specimen of the lanius 

 minor cinerascens cum macula in scapulis alba, Raii; l which is 

 a bird that, at the time of your publishing your two first 

 volumes of " British Zoology," I find you had not seen. 

 You have described it well from Edwards's drawing. 



1 The woodchat, La/tins pomeranus. ED. 



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