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IN NATURE of July 17 last (vol. xxx. p. 271), just received, appears an article on “Birds'-Nest Soup,” which contains the statement that “the nests of the bats1 and swifts were seen hanging in clusters from the sides and roof.” That the addition of the “bats” to the contributors of the nests is not an accidental lapsus calami is shown further on, when we read that the visitor eating the soup will “at any rate have the satisfaction of knowing that he has before him a dish the principal ingredient of which was formed by the little swifts and bats1 which inhabit the Gomanton Caves,” &c., &c.
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LAYARD, E. Birds'-Nest Soup. Nature 31, 82 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/031082b0
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