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LETTER XLIX. 



To the same. 



SELBORNE, May jth, 1779. 



is now more than forty years that I have paid 

 some attention to the ornithology of this district, 

 without being able to exhaust the subject : new 

 occurrences still arise as long as any inquiries are 

 kept alive. 



In the last week of last month five of those 

 most rare birds, too uncommon to have obtained 

 a n English name, but known to naturalists by the terms of himantopus, 

 or loripes, and charadrius himantopus? were shot upon the verge of 



1 This bird is apparently the Himantoptts melanopterus of modern orni- 

 thology ED. 



