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upper parts are brown, the wings being of a deeper 

 tint ; the tail is greyish-black, crossed by darker 

 bars. The neck and breast are almost an immaculate 

 white, becoming a dirty yellowish-white under the 

 belly, which is irregularly marked with dark arrow- 

 head like marks. The cere is yellow, the bill blue, 

 becoming black towards the point, the legs and feet 

 of a brilliant yellow, and the long talons are black. 



"FRIENDS IN COUNCIL:" A LIST OF 

 ASSISTING NATURALISTS. 



THE persons mentioned below have signified 

 their willingness to gratuitously assist learners 

 of natural history and others, personally when prac- 

 ticable, otherwise through the post. It is, however, 

 to be distinctly understood that this list is not 

 intended to include professional naturalists only or 

 chiefly, but all lovers of nature who have any know- 

 ledge of the subject. Additional names will be gladly 

 received by me and inserted in a supplementary 

 list. This index will show a visitor to any of the 

 undermentioned places to whom he may apply for 

 assistance in studying its natural history. Any one 

 finding a specimen, of which he desires to know the 

 name, may forward it to one who makes such objects 

 his speciality, &c. In using the list it is suggested 

 that those who write for information should enclose 

 addressed post-card or stamps for reply. Before 

 sending specimens of any value, it will be well to 

 ascertain whether the correspondent is willing to return 

 them ; if so, sufficient stamps to prepay return should 

 be annexed. When sending fragile objects the address 

 may be written on a separate linen label, to obviate 

 their being crushed under the post-office stamp. As 

 Messrs. Kelly remark in the London Post-Office 

 Directory, " ' Esquire ' should be added to the name 

 of every gentleman to which no inconsistent addition 

 is affixed." Please acquaint the Editor with any 

 change of address, in order that it may be notified in 

 Science-Gossip. 



Taptou Elms, Sheffield. Bernard Hobson. 



Bedfordshire. 

 Luton. J. Saunders, 47 Rothesay Road. Botany, 

 Geology, particularly plants and fossils of Cretaceous 

 strata. 



Cheshire. 

 Frodsham. James F. Robinson. Mosses, Fungi, or 

 other plants. 



Cornwall. 



Falmouth. J. S. Usley, 6 Trevethen Terrace. Botany, 

 Geology; local plants, marine animals, rocks and 

 fossils exchanged for non-local rocks and fossils. 



Devonshire. 

 Kentisbeare, Cullompton. Rev. W. Downes, F.G.S 



Geology. 



Dorsetshire. 



Blandford. Rev. O. P. Cambridge, Bloxworth Rec- 

 tory. Araehnida. 



Durham. 



Hartlepool. C. O. Trechmann, Ph. D. Rocks, 

 minerals, especially crystals. 



West Hartlepool. Robert Morton Middleton, jun., 

 Fountain House. British and North American 

 Botany, Mammals, Birds and Reptiles. John E. 

 Robson, Bellerby Terrace, Entomology, especially 

 Macro-Lepidoptera. 



Essex. 

 Colchester. Henry Laver, F.L.S., 1 Trinity Street. 

 Land and freshwater Shells, Cheiroptera, Mammals, 

 (except Cetacea), Reptiles, all British. 



Kent. 

 Rochester and Chatham. Dr. J. Henry Morton, 



Pres. Rochester Nat. Soc. British Flora, especially 



Phanerogams, Microscopic mounting, General 



Natural History. 

 Tonbridge. Miss Edith Thomson, Judde Place. 



Botany, Conchology, Microscopy. 



Lancashire. 



Manchester. James Walkden, 183 Broad Street,, 

 Pendleton. British Coleoptera. 



Urmston, 5 miles from Manchester. Thomas Arm- 

 strong, F.R.M.S., Highfield Bank. Microscopy. 



Nottinghamshire. 

 Nottingham. C. J. A. Crawley, High School. Botany y 

 chiefly Phanerogams, Geology, Mineralogy. 



Oxfordshire. 

 Oxford. G. C. Druce, F.L.S., 118 High Street. 



Phanerogamic Botany. 

 Witney. W. H. Warner, Standlake. Zoology. 



Shropshire. 



Parville, Wellington. Robert Anslow. British Flower- 

 ing Plants, Mosses and Hepaticic. 



Shrewsbury. William Phillips, Canonbury, Kings- 

 land. Hymenomycetes, Discomycetes, Myxogastres 

 (Fungi). Specimens to be freshly gathered, care- 

 fully packed, not to be returned. 



Surrey. 



London. Thomas B. Linley, 88 Blackfriars Road, 

 S.E. Geology. 



London. B. Daydon Jackson, F.L.S., F.R.M.S. 

 Memb. Soc. Roy. Bot. de Belgique, 30 Stockwell 

 Road, S.W. Botany, especially its early literature. 



Sussex. 

 Eastbourne. Miss Annie Woodhouse, Rutland House. 



Flowering plants. 



