[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.