NATURAL HISTORY. 
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fhe Z I M B. 
H AVING obferved a curious account of 
the zimb, in the travels of Mr Bruce, wc 
could not refrain from extrafting it, as a 
nioft valuable addition to our fmall compen- 
dium of natural hiftory. 
This infeift is called the zimb, or tzal- 
falya. It is a little larger than a bee ; with 
wings of pure gauze. 1 he head is large ; 
the upper jaw lharp, and furniflied with a 
fharp-pointed hair, about a quarter of an 
inch long : the lower jaw has two of thefe 
pointed hairs •, and the three, joined into 
one pencil, make a refinance to the finger, 
nearly equal to that of a hog’s briflle. As 
foon as this winged alTaflln appears, and his 
buzzing is heard, the cattle forfake their 
food, and run wildly about the plain, till 
they, die, worn out with fatigue, affright, 
and pain. The inhabitants ot Melinda, 
down to Cape-Gardefan, to Saba, and the 
fouth coaft of the Red Sea, are c -■igcd to 
put themfelvas in motion, and remove to 
the next land, in the beginning of the rainy 
feafon: this is not a partial emigration; the 
inhabitants of all the countries, from the 
mountains of Abyflinia, northward, to tlie 
confluence of the Nile, and Aftaboras, are 
once in a year, obliged to change their abode, 
and feek protection in the fands of Beja. 
