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it, Mr. Blyth has stated, that he is " very desirous of ascer- 

 taining with accuracy how the migratory land birds are dis- 

 tributed over the country :" that this " can only be satisfac- 

 torily elucidated by the cooperation of naturalists resident in 

 different parts;" and that, " at present, there is a good deal to 

 be learned on this subject." 



Papilio Machaora; on the Mode of its changing out of the 

 Larva State into the Pupa one. By J. Curtis. 



S. Kennaway on the Music of Snails. The pith of this 

 communication is the following statement by a young lady : — 

 " One evening, I kneeled upon the window seat, when it was 

 nearly dusk, and heard a soft musical sound : not a humming 

 or murmuring, but a truly musical tone. I saw a snail; and, 

 having a desire to annihilate those destroyers of fruits and 

 flowers, took it from the window : I had silenced the music 1 

 I recollected what I had heard, and felt a sort of pang." 



A Notice of the reported Capture of the Common Garpike 

 (J5elone vulgaris) in the River Tame. By S. P. 



Notes on the Redshank [Totanus Calidris). 



Reviews : Agassiz's Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles, and 

 Jenyns's Manual of British Vertebrate Animals, are reviewed. 



Under the head, " From the Foreign Scientific Journals," 

 is given an abstract of an account recently produced by Pro- 

 fessor Meisner of Basle, of the mode of the prodigious growth 

 of the incisor teeth, in some of the rodent mammiferous 

 animals. This subject has been elucidated by facts, treatises, 

 and figures, published in our II. 134? — 137.; III. 27. ; VI. 

 21—25. 390—393.] 



Empson, C. : Narratives of South America; illustrating Man- 

 ners, Customs, and Scenery: containing, also, numerous 

 facts in Natural History, collected during a Four Years' 

 Residence in Tropical Regions. 8vo. London, W. Ed- 

 wards, 12. Ave Maria Lane, 1836. 



The matter on natural history included in this volume 

 would afford pleasure, and some profit, to the naturalist ; but 

 it is not presented with sufficient technical precision, nor in 

 sufficient quantity, to satisfy him. 



Twelve coloured fac-similes of drawings illustrative of 

 the Narratives, mounted on tinted paper, and enclosed in a 

 suitable portfolio, are published by Messrs. Ackermann and 

 Co., Strand, London ; and C. Tilt, Fleet Street, London. 



Bell, T., Lecturer on Comparative Anatomy at Guy's Hos- 

 pital, F.R.S., F.L.S. : A History of British Quadrupeds ; 

 illustrated by a woodcut of each species, and by numerous 



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