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For a long time I have desired my relation to look out for these 

 birds in Andalusia ; and now he writes me word that, for the first 

 time, he saw one dead in the market on the third of September. 



When the cedicnemus flies it stretches out its legs straight behind, 

 like an heron. I am, &c. 



LETTER XXXIV. 



TO THE SAME. 



SELBORNE, March 30^, 1771. 



DEAR SIR, There is an insect with us, especially on chalky 

 districts, which is very troublesome and teasing all the latter end of 

 the summer, getting into people's skins, especially those of women 



I. ATHALIA CENTIFOLIA. 2. BLACK DOLPHIN. 3. HALTICA NEMORUM. 



and children, and raising tumours which itch intolerably. This 

 animal (which we call an harvest bug) is very minute, scarce 

 discernible to the naked eye ; of a bright scarlet colour, and of the 



agreed with me entirely ; that there is in the great bustard neither an orifice under the 

 tongue, nor a gular pouch. He writes, ' The following was the result of my dissection 

 of a full-grown bustard, with the view of obtaining a preparation of the alleged gular 

 pouch for the Physiological Series, No. 772, Q. (Museum of Col. of Surgeons^ The head 

 of a bustard, otis tardei, with the mouth and fauces exposed, showing the glandular 

 orifices between the ^rami of the lower jaw, the tongue, glottis, internal nostrils, and 

 Eustachian orifice. There is no trace of a gular pouch.' " 



