%K., 



LETTER VII. 



To the same. 



RINGMER, near LEWES, Oct. 8tA, 177- 



[EAR SIR, I am glad to hear that Kuckalm is to 

 furnish you with the birds of Jamaica ; a sight of 

 the hirundines of that hot and distant island would 

 be a great entertainment to me. 



The Anni of Scopoli are now in my posses- 

 sion ; and I have read the Annus Primus with 

 satisfaction ; for though some parts of this work 

 are exceptionable, and he may advance some mistaken observations, 

 yet the ornithology of so distant a country as Carniola is very 

 curious. Men that undertake only one district are much more 

 likely to advance natural knowledge than those that grasp at more 



