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P. 825. W. C. Hewitson describes nest of long tailed Comtit with two holes in the dome as Mr Selby has described, one for the tail; also describes nest of golden crested wren in juniper bush only one foot from the ground!!

The eggs were remarkably different from the common ones in shape and colour; case certain; (mena) [illeg] case of black bird

P 828 Mr Couch remarks on early state of tadpole having branchial tufts, which disappear & are succeeded by gills for aquatic respiration.

Owen has observed similar tufts in some very young sharks; & others in other fish.

P 882. Mr Banister describes a poor swampy heath in which vegetation in parts has been wholly

changed by some modern colonies of two birds of gulls by their dung.

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P. 897. Wollaston (Lundy Isl.) 14 miles from Devonshire.

31/4 miles long 1/2 broad, & lofty; is inhabited by 64 coleoptera belonging to 49 genera i.e. 1.30 per genus.

P. 938. Blackwall, on kook with curved bill not naked at base; but a young bird in confinement did become naked

P. 950. Newport, address Entomolog. Soc. (1845). Case of Africa Æshna 600 miles from land in Atlantic; also of large butterfly 600 miles from Cape De Verdes.

P. 1023. Mr Spicer on blackbirds' nest on base ground; the ground was scooped out

P 1068. Mr Hepburn on singing of birds; the water onsel & robin [&] some other birds sing all the year; & several others occasionally, thro'out the year.

P. 1073. Description of 2 vars or doubtful species of Nucifraga with very different beaks, both have been taken in England.

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P. 1075. Case of Siskins breeding in confinement

P. 1088. Mr Gaze Valerian Sweet William, Larkspur & especially Silene Inflata very attractive to moths. I don't think I have seen a bee on silene or sweet William.

P. 1097. Dr Hodgkin on the Dog – before Brit. Assoc. A female dingo confined in this country attracted the wild foxes which sought her company. He makes Spitz and Esqimaux [Eskimaux] one class, hounds spaniels & terriers another class, greyhound shepherd dog bull dog mastiff another; remarks on affinity of bull dog & grey hound.

Shows that Newfoundland is probably a cross of esquimaux & large French hound.

P. 1134 Mr Knox, seems to conclude that wear & tear assist in making base of rook's bill naked. Mr Yarrel had specimen with much distorted bill yet [a] very small portion at base of lower mandible alone! was naked; whilst feathers over nostrils were perfect. (Mena) Audubon

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P. 1146 F. Smith in the female bee of Epeolus the scutellum has two red spots, in the male always black; (Mena) male & female bees often differently coloured.

P. 1156 Mr Beare on hive-bees in bad years sucking ripe gooseberries.

P. 1202 Mr H. T. Frere on a pure-setter positively said to have been produced from two pointers, & that the pointer bitch very little produced one setter, thinks pointer now much crossed with hound, remarks on affinity of grey hound & bull dog;

P. 1203. Mr Briggs on 3 vars of English fox. –

P. 1215. Mr Hough clearly describes revival of frozen frog in block of ice; leg snapt off.

P. 1215. Mr Chennell describes toads near Guildford with head devoured by larvæ of flies.

P. 1219. Mr Wolley of Liverpool states that many spiders & occasionally snakesare found in dye wood vessels concealed in cleft of the dye wood.

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Pag 1225 The pansy as an especial favourite of the genus Plusia (moth); the pink is also a favourite of moths.

P. 1254. M. J. Deby on Birds of Belgium, several hybrids from the common & Muscovy duck have been shot in several parts of Belgium & of N. France (Mena) Audubon's case.

P. 1320 Mr Gurney on Birds of Norfolk, Herons throw up pellets with fur of rats & remains of beetles found in Heronines

P 1341. Mr Bond say mistletoe is attractive to moths

P. 1420. Mr G. Wolley of Liverpool case of the spread of Dreissena Polymorpha in a small unnavigable stream; in another case up a brook, a mile from a canal.

Like anchovies going up Brook near Cambridge

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P. 1460. Locusts covering the sea for miles off the Western Islands, believed to have been blown from Africa

P 1546 Mr John Macgillivray on the nidification in Australia of Sula Fusca, Anous stolidus, & Thalassipora Fuliginosa; these birds were compared by Gould with North American

specimens, & no specific difference could be detected. In N. America the brown Booby, according to Audubon, has only one egg, whereas in Torres strait every nest had two eggs – Audubon says the Noddy lays 3 eggs; in Australia never more than one in thousands of nests & likewise, so Mr. Gilbert observed, same fact on S.W of Australia. The Sooty Tern according to Audubon always lays 3 eggs, & there are uncommonly little variable in size & colouring; in Australia it invariably lays a single egg, & that remarkably variable.

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P. 1548. Mr J. W. Barlow of Holmes chapel Cheshire says the mountain Finch a few years ago was very common, but has now almost forsaken us: quotes Wilson that a kind of snipe in North America now begins to lay about 20th of May, which is 2 weeks later than it was 20 years ago.

P. 1551. Mr Beverly; R. Morris describes kingfishers at Lyme Regis hunting for fish by hovering over one tidal pool & there over another, which is very different from ordinary habit of perching on branch of tree over stream.