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i. THE STRAW-COLOUR'D CHINCH. 



ALLUCITA PALLIDA. 



Each wing is compofed of one diftincl: undivided feather. 



Plate 9. 



This is a creature very flrange in its nature, and hiitory ; and 

 which once came as ftrangely before me. A ftudious gentleman, very 

 fubjecl: to the head-ach, which he, and his phyfician, both attributed 

 to great attention 3 fneezing one day with violence, as he was writ- 

 ing, faw fome atoms a moment afterwards upon a fheet of white 

 paper that lay upon his table ; and they plainly moved : he doubled up 

 the paper, and brought it to me : when we laid a parcel of thefe 

 moving particles before the lucernal microfcope, they appeared of 

 the lize and figure reprefented at Plate 9 ; and were in continual mo- 

 tion j vibrating their Antlers, making their Wings, and turning up 

 their Tail to their Heads, in the manner of Earwigs, but with an 

 incredible fwiftnefs. 



'Twas palpable they had been difcharged from his nofe ; and 'tis 

 very eafy to fee whence they were thrown, and to underftand how 

 they might have caufcd intolerable pain, while they were thus 

 railing and moving their irritating hairs, and feathers, upon a part 

 where the very fubftance of the brain is almoft naked. 



I had feen the fame Species inhabiting the Flowers of the Plant 

 Mignonette ; and on afking, found he had that Plant in his chamber. 



The Head of this creature is lemon-coiour'd. 



Its Eyes are of a delicate blue. 



The Studs over them deep black. 



Its Antlers are of the paleft brown, but ruddy at the bafe of each Joint. 



The Feelers are pale, and fmall. 



Its Trunk is of a pale ftraw-colour. 

 The Scutcheon has a tint of greenifh. 

 Its Body is very pale ftraw-colour. 

 The Rings dividing it are whitifh. 



Its Legs are pale brown, but deeper at the joints. 

 Its Wings are whitifh, with a dufk of brown. 

 Its Tail is amber-colour'd. 



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