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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 ; * 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, Lanius fomer anus. ED. 



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