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marauders that ever scourged this part of the country. He 

 had annoyed me for a length of time; and was so exceedingly 

 cunning, that, when we went in pursuit of him, he always con- 

 trived to escape, either by squatting down in the thick cover 

 of the woods, or by taking himself off in time, when he saw us 

 approach. At last, he owed his capture to the magpies. We 

 were directed to the place of his depredations by the in- 

 cessant chatterings of these birds in the tops of the trees, just 

 over the spot where he was working in his vocation. He had 

 hanged fourteen hares ; and the ground was so covered with 

 brambles and brushwood, that, when we surprised him, he 

 told us that we never should have found him, had it not been 

 for the cursed magpies. His name was Kirk. In the course of 

 the following summer, he set out on his travels towards New 

 South Wales, at the king's expense ; having been convicted, 

 at the York assizes, of an overweening inclination for his 

 neighbour's mutton, to which he had helped himself most 

 abundantly. 



Walton Hall, Yorkshire, April 6. 1836. 



Art. II. Illustrations in British Zoology. By George John- 

 ston, M.D., Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edin- 

 burgh. 



Lamella n ria tentacula v ta. {fig. 25.) 

 I need make no apology for introducing this mollusc to 

 the reader's notice, for it is among the very rarest of its class, 

 and appears to have been 

 hitherto described by Mon- 

 tagu only. The specimen 

 which served for the pre- 

 sent figure and description 

 was found, near low-water 

 mark, in Berwick Bay. 



The animal, when ex- 

 tended, is about three quar- 

 ters of an inch long, of a 

 circular or oval form, the 

 back convex, roughish, of a 



WOod-brOWn Colour Spec- a, A view of the upper side ; b, a view of the under 



- , , . , c . l i side; c, a view of the under side, with the 



kled With a tew llTegUlar animal in a different state to that in b; <f, two 



n* i j ii i i. views of the shell. 



reddish and yellow dots, 



dusky and obscurely papillose in the centre, the margin 

 of the cloak widely overlapping the foot, deeply sinuated 

 in front, and having a slight emargination behind, where 



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