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[26.] Quot. with preceding in Newell’s Zool. of the Poets, p. 50–2.

[27.] Kirb. and Sp. Introd., i. 317.

[28.] Jaeger, Life of Amer. Ins., p. 61.

[29.] Kirb. and Sp. Introd., i. 316.

[30.] Shaw’s Zool., vi. 42.

[31.] Gough’s Sepul. Mon., vol. i. p. xii.—These sepulchral tumuli, or burrows, are of the remotest antiquity, and continued in use till the twelfth century.—Ibid.

[32.] Wilkin. Anct. Egypt. ii. (2d S.) 261; and Pettig. Hist. of Mummies, p. 53–5.

[33.] Baird’s Cyclop. of Nat. Sci.

[34.] Cuvier’s Animal Kingd.—Ins., i. 530.

[35.] The Mirror, xix. 180; and Saturday Mag., xvi. 144.