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NATURAL HISTORY 
lay but fhallow, and within the influence of the fun, juft under 
a Httle heap of frefli-mowed mould, like that which is raifed 
by ants. 
When mole-crickets fly they move " curfu undofo" rifing and 
falling in curves, like the other fpecies mentioned before. In 
different parts of this kingdom people call them fen-crickets, churr- 
'Worms, and eve-churrs, all very appofite names , 
Anatomifts, who have examined the inteftines of thefe infedts, 
aftonifli me with their accounts ; for they fay that, from the 
ftrudure, pofition, and number of their ftomachs, or maws, 
there feems to be good reafon to fuppofe that this and the twa 
former fpecies ruminate or chew the cud like many quadrupeds 1 
LETTER XLIX. 
To THE SAME. 
Seleorne, May 7, 1779. 
It is now more than forty years that I have paid fome attention to 
the ornithology of this diftrid, without being able to exhauft the 
fubje<5t : new occurrences ftill arife as long as any inquiries are 
kept alive. 
In the lall week of laft month five of thofe moft rare birds, too 
uncommon to have obtained an Engliflj name, but known to natu- 
ralifts 
