mushrooms and grass of Parnassus and lovely Carex flava perigynia! and rosette of spatterdock splayed out for all to see, long-legged with insect-eaten blades... an October morning at Ridges Sanctuary, Door Co. WI.
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![LETTER XLIX.
TO THE SAME.
Selborne, May 7, 1779.
It is now more than forty years that I have paid some attention to the ornithology of this district, without being able to exhaust the subject: new occurrences still arise as long as any inquiries are kept alive.
In the last week of last month five of those most rare birds, too uncommon to have obtained an English name, but known to naturalists by the terms of himantopus, or loripes, and charadrius himantopus, were shot upon the verge of Frinsham-pond, a large lake belonging to the bishop of Winchester, and lying between Wolmer-forest, and the town of Farnham, in the county of Surrey. The pond keeper says there were three brace in the flock; but that, after he had satisfied his curiosity, he suffered the sixth to remain unmolested. One of these specimens I procured, and... [end of page]
1 [The only foundation for the supposition that crickets and mole-crickets ruminate is that, like many other insects, they have a gizzard, set with hard ridges or teeth, behind the crop.]
2 [The black-winged stilt, an uncommon visitor to this country.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ln2nxy65snp4j2aefjhm7q7n/bafkreicuzldhx56tidaej5hzdxxamjf4pd3o7s5fdiug333cwhzjemwa6y)
