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goat-fucker's fuppofed fucking the teats of quadrupeds, the 

 bite of the Calabrian tarantula, the porcupine Ihooting its quills, 

 or the effects of the moon upon madmen, though they are called 

 lunatics. 



The true philofophical temper is neither to credit nor drfhe- 

 lieve extraordinary facts too haftily : 



Nil fpernat auris, nec tamen credat ftatim. 



Phjeprus. 



Another notion with regard to the cuckow prevails, that dur- 

 ing the winter it conceals itfelf in the flumps of trees, and which 

 perhaps is as well attefted, as the young cuckow's being hatched 

 by the hedge- fparrow. 



" Certum eft cuculum hyeme latere in concavis arborum et 

 " lapidum i." 



" Cuculus hyeme in terrse lapidum et arborum cavis fe abdit, 

 " iniifque per totam hyemem latet r ." 

 45 Cuculus hyeme occultatur s ." 



" Cuculus hyeme in -cavernis arborum latet, muta procedit 

 44 vere, &c. £ „ 



Willoughby relates, from Jo. Faber, a cuckow's being found 

 in the winter which lived the two following years. He alfo cites 

 Aldrovandus for the fame notion ; as likewife accounts he had 

 heard from his countrymen, though upon the whole he rather 

 fuppofes this bird to migrate during the winter. 



Though many of thefe citations are from men of learning, and 

 pofitively affert cuckows being thus found, I mall leave them to 



i Gefner citing Albert. 



1 Johnfon's Nat. Hift. Amfterdam, 1659, fol. 

 s Raczynfky Nat. Hift. of Poland, p. 277. Sandomirize, 1721. 

 Schvvenfeld's Hiftoria Avium Silefije. Lipfiae, 1600. 



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