[LETTER XXXVI 16 



TO THE SAME 



SELBORNB : March 19 : 1772. 



DEAR SIR, Your obliging letter of Feb : 2i st came 

 safe to this place, & followed me up to town ; where I 

 also received y r favour of March i st - 



While I was in London came from Gibraltar a box 

 containing (besides several birds which you have seen 

 before) Ardea alba minor : perhaps the 6 of Ray's synopsis 

 avium : Charadrius alexandrinus. 1 These are all the new 

 birds. 



In a bottle Sparus mcena ? Salmo eperlanus calpensis : 

 blennius supercilios. : cancer arctos. 



In a phial Squali foetus : cancer arctos : labrus. 



These are all left with my Bro : Tho : who will add 

 them to the cargo I am sending up. 



I also looked-out the pratincola, which will be sent 

 with the rest. There can be no doubt of its being a genus 

 per se. When I came home I found by the Liverpool 

 frigate a box containing : 



PHIALS 



Mustella lutra : N I. Gasterost : ovatu s? Zeus aper : 



Squallus glaucus : Labrus : Perca ? 



mustelus 2. Esox Saurus. 



Uranoscopus scaber : 3. Cancer squilla carinata : Percce: 



1 rigid volitans : & Gobii. 



some birds seen before: 4. Cancer squil : carin: Trigla 



all dryed. verticillata : Perca. 



5. Trigla lucerna: Track: Draco. 



1 The Kentish Plover. [R. B. S.] 

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