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malic taken from the face, as you rnay 

 now obferve with the naked eye ; their co- 

 lour ahx) after this moult is different from 

 what it was after the two foregoing ones, 

 having no more that light grey on the neck, 

 or that darker greyiili colour which they 

 had on the reft of their body, but being of 

 one uniform hue, hke the fmooth bark of 

 an afii branch, but a little more incUned 

 to a red colour. 



Your woims being recovered from this 

 third moult v/ill be pretty large, and fome 

 of them fliould be diftributed on other 

 fiielves to make room for their further 

 growth, which will be pretty confiderable 

 before their next ficknefs. You may diftri- 

 bute them on tlie other fiielves or hurdlesj 

 by taking up the frefli leaves with the 

 worms on them in v/hat quantity you find 

 convenient to take away ; but it would 

 perhaps be beft to take them entirely from 

 one fide of the hurdle, and not pick them 

 up here and there, for this might leave 

 thofe that remained fo fcattered as not ea- 

 fily to be fed, and I mentioned elfewhere 

 that they fhouid always be kept as clofe 

 as they can, without, crouding on one 

 another. 



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