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You will also receive the outlines of the following 

 fishes : 



Squalus centrina : Sticena ? Borrico minor : Scomber pelamis : 

 Sciana: Corbo : Esox Saurus : Gasterosteiis saltatrix : 

 Lepidopus : Perca, vel Zeus f novus, capite diaphano. 



Among the rest I send you the short-eared owl of Brit : 

 zool : omitted before. 



My thanks are due for y r thoughts on the former 

 cargo. 



Your tour thro' Scotland appears to me to be a very 

 engaging work : & the town, it is plain, is of the same 

 opinion : for the book has a great run. 



I regret that I was obliged to leave town before I had 

 seen y r genera avium. Your synopsis quadr : gives me 

 satisfaction. 



When I came to London I found a long letter from 

 Linnaeus to my Bro : John lying in Fleet-street, occasioned 

 by an epistle & some phials of insects sent by the latter 

 to the former. The old arch-naturalist writes with spirit 

 still ; & is very open & communicative, acknowledging 

 that several of the Insects were new to him. He languishes 

 to see a pratincola, being conscious that it belongs not to 

 the genus of hirundo. 



Please to order the fishes that are ascertained to be 

 thrown away ; I mean those in spirits. 



I am, Sir, 



Your most obedient, & 

 Humble servant, 

 GIL : WHITE.] 



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