78 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE 



A man brings me word just this minute that a person at 

 Alton has got a couple of eggs of the cedicnemus, which he 

 took this summer in a bean-field ; they are large and round, 

 & very much of the shape & colour of those of the Falco 

 y the Kite. 



I am with the greatest respect &c., &c.] 



