72 CORRESPONDENCE OF THE 



quis maxime delectarer. Traclieliam aliquis mihi dixit debere 

 amandari ad Hirundines : sed niaxime adhuc dubito de 



veritate *. 



Pennant a te dives factus fuit raris naturae cimeliis. 



Utinam possem aliquid tibi praastare pro tanto dono ; 

 anxius ero. 



Upsaliae, 1772, 20 Januarii. 



LETTER IH.f 



from linn^us to the rev. john white. 



Viro Reverendissimo Do. Jo. White 



S. pi. d. Carol. Linne. 

 Accepi nuper Thesaurum tuum vere aureum, missum d. 13 

 Maii ; nee gratiorem unquam. Quibus verbis tuam in me 

 prredicabo gratiam effari nequeo. 



Aviculas tuas rarissimas antea non vidi : eas studebo 

 diligenter, ubi museo s. bibliothecse reditus, qui nunc ruri 

 sestivo. 



Hirundo melba, quarn antea non vidi, affinis Hirund. apod. 



Hirundo rupestris mihi antea ignota, vere distincta. 



Coturnix tridactylus % : an ex ordine Gallinarum aut Gral- 

 larura ? 



Motacilla Tithys § longe a mea. aliena. 



* [In a letter to Pennant (March 19, 1772) I find the following allu- 

 sion to this letter. " When I came to London I found a long letter from 

 Liimseus to my Bro. John, lying in Fleet Street, occasioned by an epistle 

 and some phials of insects sent by the latter to the former. The old 

 arch-naturalist writes with spirit still ; and is very open and communica- 

 tive, 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. ," — T. B.] 



t [Printed in 'Contributions to Ornithology,' 1829, pp. 31, 32.] 



1 [Turnix sylvatica of modern ornithologists.] 



§ [Ridici/la titys.— A. N.] 



