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white, and seem to be of a closer and stronger texture than usual, but no other peculiarity is observable. It is however worthy of notice, that the cover which formed its constant haunt when not disturbed, is a piece of wood not exceeding fifty acres in extent; thus proving the disposition of the woodcock to return, not only to the same district, but to the same spot which it has once frequented, and to which it is probably first directed by the parent bird, or by other companions older than itself."—Proceedings of the Zoological Society, October 12, 1841; p. 79.

Note on Birds in March.—

"On the 11th, the lesser pettychaps or chiff-chaff is sometimes heard, but is more commonly later. The stone-curlew appears about the same time. The jack-snipe and woodcock take their departure. The wheatear arrives about the 23rd or 25th, and the blackcap and redstart, in the southern counties, appear at the end of the month if the weather is very fine."—Van Voorst's Naturalists' Almanack, for 1843.

 

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Note on the occurrence near Polperro, in Cornwall, of a Fish new to the British Catalogue, and supposed to be the Orphe of Rondeletius. By Jonathan Couch, Esq., F.L.S., &c.

Couch's Sea-bream.

The sparoid fishes are found to bear so considerable a resemblance each other in form and colour, and until very recent times have been so inadequately represented in figures, most of which have been taken from dried skins, in which all the distinguishing maiks of life and separation from one another have been lost,—that we need not

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