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snuff-box. Within the .secret nursery were 

 deposited near a hundred eggs of a dirty yellow 

 colour, and enveloped in a tough skin, but too 

 lately excluded to contain any rudiments of young, 

 being full of a viscous substance. The eggs lay 

 but shallow, and within the influence of the sun, 

 just under a little heap of fresh moved mould, like 

 that which is raised by ants. 



When mole crickets fly, they move cursu un- 

 dosOy rising and falling in curves, like the other 

 species mentioned before. In different parts of 

 this kingdom, people call them fern-crickets, 

 churr-worms, and eve-churrs, all very apposite 

 names. 



Anatomists, who have examined the intestines 

 of these insects, astonish me with their accounts ; 

 for they say, that from the structure, position, and 

 number of their stomachs, or maws, there seems 

 to be good reason to suppose that this and the 

 two former species ruminate, or chew the cud like 

 many quadrupeds ! 



XLIX. 



IT is now more than forty years that I have 

 paid some attention to the ornithology of this 

 district, without being able to exhaust the subject : 

 new occurrences still arise as long as any inquiries 

 are kept alive. 



In the last week of last month, five of those 

 most rare birds, too uncommon to have obtained 

 an English name, but known to naturalists by the 

 terms of himantopus, or loripes, and charadrius 

 himantopus, were shot upon the verge of Frin- 

 sham-pond, a large lake belonging to the Bishop 

 of Winchester, and lying between Wolmer Forest 



