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' Mosses found in the Spring of 1829, in the Neighbourhood of Glenfeld, and 

 Charnwood Forest : — 



-Sphagnum obtusif blium, and ^ypnum brevirostre. Funaria hygrometrica. 



S. acutif blium. Beacon prael6nguin. , Grimmia pulvinata. 



Hill. rutiibulutn. Anictanglum ciliatum. Banks 



/^ypnum spl^ndens. Polytrichum undulatum. of Grooby Pool, 



triquetrum. commune. Sheet Hedges Leticodon sciuroides. 



pkrum. Wood. Neck^ra heteromalla. 



cuspidatum. Juniperinura. BeaconHill. Gymn6stomum intermedium, 



proliferum. piliferum and aloides. Didymodon purpilreum. 



squanbsum. Grooby, Weiswa cirrata. 



dendrdides. Branston. nanum. Newbold Verdun. Orthotrichum pulch^llum. 



cordifblium. Shallow pond .Brj^um palustre. BeaconHill. Tortula murMis. 



between Kirby Muxtoe ligulatum. Eucalypta vulgaris, 



and Newtown Unthank. hornum. Marchantm polymurpha. 



Ibreum. Bardon Hill. csespititium. Jungermanma asplenioides. 



sericGum. turbinatum. bidentata. 



molluscum. Dicranum scoparium. platyphylla. Banks of 



denticulatum. Swithland cerviculktum. Grooby Pool. 



slate-pits. faxifblium. complanata. 



plumbsum. Trich6stomum lanuginbsum. ^amariscina. 



cupressif6rme. Swithland slate-pits. dilatkta. 



aduncum. Bartramm pomif6rmis. 



— Andrew Bloxam. Glenfield^ near Leicester^ Marchy 1830. 



Suffolk. 



List of scarce Birds killed in Suffolk since the Autumn of 1827, sent as 

 addenda to the list of Mr. J. D. Hoy of Stoke by Nayland. (Vol. III. p. 436.) 

 Those marked with an asterisk are in my own collection : — 



Platalea Leucorodia, or spoonbill. Three shot at Thorpe, out of a flight 

 of seven, in the autumn of 1828, by Mr. Almond of Aldborough ; *another 

 shot at Thorpe Fen, Nov. 1829, by Mr. Durrant of Hazlewood. — Cursorius 

 Isabellzwz<5, cream-coloured plover. Shot at Freston, near Aldborough, on 

 Oct. 3. 1828, by a shepherd of the name of Smith. — >4'rdea Ciconia, stork. 

 Three seen for some weeks at the spring of this year, about Butley Creek 

 and Thorpe Fen ; only one killed, and that by the Marquess of Hereford's 

 keeper on the Sudbourne estate. — *<S'c61opax pygmae'a, pygmy curlew. 

 Butley; 1830. — 5. lapponica, red-breasted godwit. Thorpe Fen; 1828. 



— S. TbtanuSy spotted snipe. Thorpe Fen ; 1829. — Podiceps obsciirus 

 dusky grebe. Woodbridge; 1827, 1829. — *P. hebridicus, black chin 

 grebe. Middleton; 1827. — Colymbus septentrionalis, red-throated diver. 

 Snape ; 1827. — Lestris parasiticus, Arctic gull. Aldborough ; 1830. — 

 *ikfergus albellus, smew. Snape; 1829. — *.^^nas albifrons, white-fronted 

 goose. Aldborough ; 1829. — *^. spectabilis, king duck (female). Ald- 

 borough ; 1827. — * ^. Clangula, golden eye. Aldborough; 1829. — *J'lca 

 Pica, black-billed auk. Aldborough ; 1827.— Falco .Haliae^'etus, osprey. Ald- 

 borough; 1830. — *F. Lithofalco, stone falcon. Theberton; 1829.— ^^m- 

 pelis garrulus, waxen chatterer. Burgh; 1828. — *T'urdus torquatus, ring 

 ouzel. Yoxford; 1827. — CTpupa JE^pops, hoopoe. Sutton; 1830. — *L6xia 

 curvirostra, crossbill. Yoxford (several); 1827. — *Pringilla Montifrjn- 

 gilla, brambling. Grundisburgh ; 1828. — *ilfotacilla Boarula, grey wagtail. 

 Grundisburgh ; 1830. — The Falco Lithofalco is not a very uncommon bird 

 in Suffolk, and I think there can be no doubt as to its being a distinct 

 species from the hobby or merlin. I have known both males and females 

 shot. -— Edward Acton. Grundisburghy near Woodbridge y Nov. 29. 1830. 



Sussex. 

 Large Whale recently found in the Channel near Brighton. — The curiosity of 

 the inhabitants of Brighton and its vicinity has been highly excited and grati- 

 fied by the interesting circumstance of an enormous whale having been landed 

 by our fishermen on the shore between Kemp Town and Rottingdean. This 

 monster of the deep was observed in the channel on Wednesday, Dec. 29. ; 

 and, late in the afternoon of that day, a party of about sixteen fishermen 

 succeeded in towing it to land. It appeared to have been dead a consider- 

 able time (perhaps a fortnight), and, it is said, bore marks of injury in 

 various parts of the body. It measures 63 ft. in length (implying a weight' 



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