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p. 1602 Mr A Hussy's account of a tame partridge. Its knowledge of every one was extraordinary. His likings & dislikings very strong. "He was very fond of gay colours & no new gown or cap could be put on without catching his attention."

p. 1631. H. D. Richardson states that some skulls of cattle in an old mound are not identical with those now domesticated in Ireland.

p. 1660 Mr J. R. Hawley. The number of mistimed appearances & barren females have this year been unusually great among moths. All the females of Orthosia munda which he reared were unattracive to males so it was last year with all the females which were taken of Mamestra suasa.

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p. 1756 Wollaston took on Lundy T. 153 beetles so former reference of no value.

p. 1774 Mr J Wolley visited jackdaw's nest & found eggs uncovered, but on revisiting nest on succeeding days, found eggs covered. Keeper says several birds sometimes lay in same nest.

p. 1775 Case of blackbirds nest in a wood on the ground.

p. 1862 Mr H. Doubleday kept pupae of Death's head moth till succeeding year & produced barren females, as did some hatched the same year.

p 1896 H. Schaum smooth & sulcated females have been observed in 4 European species of Dytiscus. Two analogous forms viz. shining & finely punctured in some species of Hydoporus.

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p. 1900. Swarms of white butterflies have been actually seen to arrive at Dover.

p 2023 A. P. Falconer some years ago a few miles from Land's End the sea was strewed with 100s of woodcocks.

p. 2058 Sir W. M. E Milner "at St Kilda we procured 2 or 3 remarkable nuts taken from the crops of the young Fulmars." Procellaria glacialis.

p. 2077 P. Inchbald gives an acct of gradation of the Apterous state of the females of Hiberniae. Some being almost entirely apterous.