2!<5 KEY. THOMAS RIDDELI/S ADDRES :. 



fraga liirculns, but they were not so fortunate as to discover its ha- 

 bitat. 



After dinner, Mr Kmbleton exhibited a specimen of the Short. Sun- 

 fish, taken in Kmhlcton Hay some years before, which he had exa- 

 mined when it was just caught: and another of Larus minutus, the 

 little gull, shot on the same locality in March 1838, the plumage of 

 uhirh indicated that it had only attained its second year. Mr Em- 

 bleton likewise exhibited a specimen of Comatula rosacca, taken in 

 Kinhlrton Hay, an interesting discovery, which will probably lead to 

 that of the Pentacrinus Europaeus, now believed to be the same animal 

 in its earliest condition. 



Mr Selby read a paper by Mr W. Forster of Newton, on the habits 

 of the mountain sparrow ; and gave notice that several specimens of 

 the pied fly-catcher (Muscicapa luctuosa), had been killed in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Twizell in May of the present year. 



I ought not to omit noticing a continuation of Mr Henderson's 

 paper on the popular rhymes of Berwickshire, in which I am confi- 

 dent that more than one of us must be interested. A variation, cha- 

 racteristic of the locality, occurs in the Roxburghshire version of one 

 of these rhymes, which a friend of mine heard from a little girl. ' If 

 you wish to know what the lark says,' said she, ' you must lie down on 

 your back in the fields and listen, and you will hear him say, 



' Up in the lift we go, 

 Tchco, tehee, tehee, tehee ! 



All the sutors in Selkirk can't make a shoe to me. 

 Why so \ Why so 1 

 Because my heel is as long as my toe.' 



The weather generally on our days of meeting, though far from un- 

 pleasant, was yet very unfavourable for the entomologist, and there- 

 fore I regret the less that it is not in my power to lay before you an ac- 

 count of the insects which were observed. The arrangements of the 

 animals of the district in catalogues, which has been carried on for 

 several years by the most scientific members of our Club, must be very 

 conducive to a complete knowledge of the natural treasures it con- 

 tains ; and if, in a few years, when they have been completed, they 

 were published as a fauna, with notices of the more remarkable loca- 

 lities, especially in the case of rare species, they would furnish at once 

 an incentive and a guide to the researches of future labourers in the 

 same field. The known flora of the district has received great ac- 

 cessions in consequence of Dr Johnston's excellent publication, and 

 there are now materials accumulated for a more complete exhibition 

 of the botanical riches of the neighbourhood. It is most desirable 

 that every means should be employed likely to spread the knowledge 

 and the love of Natural History. 



