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feeding Red-breafts : IgneJJe the reafin to be^ that the Hair 
is noxious to their jiomacf^s. And indeed^ it is opinion^ 
that the Veficateingjfir»/(;> ^?/In(c6ts is much more in the 
Haircut hen in any other partilhaveing Blown into my Boxes ^ 
where fometimes 1 kept a fort of Hairy CimiceSj had in a 
fewMinuts after all my Face Blijiered* Theje Naked and 
therefore more inocent Catterpillars, by the inJiinS of 
Nature feek^ to preferm themfelves^f by getting under 
Ground in the Day time^ when the Birds are JHrring^ 
0.P.I.1 Number. 44. 
r^h. ^6. 
The Catterpillar of the 44#i&. table^ feeds of D0gs~ 
mercury as (bon as it perceives any thing it is not u’ft tOj 
it cafts it (elfe upon the ground, and lye s round in 
as though it was Dead. — It changed the 30#^. o£fjuly, 
and the 26th. of Auguji, came forth zButterfiy, fig in the 
Table, of a rare fhape and colour 5 the fore part of its 
Body was Hooded as it were, it lived long without 
Food , and was vcrv fearfull 
what the Plant Mercurialis may he I cannot gueffe ^ 
many there are that hear that name^ ^ Bonus Hpnricus 5 
Dogs mercury^ See. 
o.p.,. Number. 45. 
' ^ ' The Catterpillar, of the 4 5#^. Table, Eats the leaves 
Lovage, only ith Night, never o’th Day-time, I found it 
lying in the cracks of a Chery-tree, it cu.«nged the fite of 
its Body often in the Day time, it uf’e to lift up its body 5 
as though it looked about it watchfully. 
Before 
