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The light of the female glow-worm (as she often crawls up the stalk of a grass to make herself more conspicuous) is a signal to the male, which is a slender dusky scarabaeus.) (******* See the story of Hero and Leander.)
Letter XXV To Thomas Pennant, Esquire
Selborne, Aug. 30, 1769.
Dear Sir,
It gives me satisfaction to find that my account of the ousel migration pleases you. You put a very shrewd question when you ask me how I know that their autumnal migration is southward?
