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NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE.
distinctions of insects according to Linnæus; for I am well assured that many people would study insects, could they set out with a more adequate notion of those distinctions than can be conveyed at first by words alone.
LETTER XXXV.
Selborne, 1771.
Dear Sir,—Happening to make a visit to my neighbour's
The Common Peacock (Pavo cristatus).
peacocks, I could not help observing that the trains of those magnificent birds appear by no means to be their tails; those
