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heroic virtues in curing the jaundice so 

 much has been said*. I picked up a curi- 

 ous insect which I then named Cantharis 

 riiger maculatus et uudulatus {Cicindela 

 sylvatica)^ and which I afterwards met 



with in great abundance throughout the 

 pine forests of this province, though rare 

 elsewhere, flying or running with great 

 celerity along the roads and paths. Here 

 also it was my fortune to see a rare bird 

 not hitherto described. If I am not mis- 

 taken, it is what Professor Rudbeck called 

 Pica Lapponum. I could only examine 

 it through my spying-glass, but I perceived 



* Tremellu juniperina of Linnaeus, T. Salince of 

 Dickson: see English Botany, v. 10. /. 710, which 

 I am persuaded is merely an exudation from the shrub 

 that bears it. 



