[572] Ray's Letters, 135.

[573] Sparrman, i. 201.

[574] Sir G. Staunton's Voy. iii. 246.

[575] Phytol. 364.

[576] Sparrman, i. 363.

[577] Captain Green relates that, in the ceded districts in India, they place the branches of trees over the nests, and then by means of smoke drive out the insects; which attempting to fly, their wings are broken off by the mere touch of the branches.

[578] Smeathman, 31.

[579] Letters written in a Mahratta Camp in 1809.

[580] Knox's Ceylon, 25.

[581] Piso, Ind. l. v. c. 13. 291.