650 Murray's Northern Flora. 



pastime of shooting the young rooks know that there are two 

 flights, an early and a late one. The early flight is composed 

 of the young of those rooks whose nests have remained from 

 a former year. These having only to repair their old nests, 

 lay and hatch much sooner than those who have to build 

 entire new ones. I believe rooks never breed twice in a 

 season, unless their first nest is robbed. The fact of there 

 being two distinct flights, one considerably later than the 

 other, and the immense mass of materials of which some of 

 the nests are composed, would be sufficient to prove that 

 rooks make use of the same nest for years together; but 

 they may be seen in the spring, and sometimes much earlier, 

 repairing the old nests, which have been disarranged by the 

 storms of winter, by any one who will take the trouble to 

 watch the proceedings of these interesting birds. — R. R. 

 Sept. 1836. 



Winged Glowworm, (p. 487.) — The question I asked, and 

 which E. N. D. has obligingly answered, I intended to put to 

 some entomologist, who had seen the insects alluded to in the 

 spot named. I never supposed my information was sufficient 

 for an " exact" answer. — W. B. Clarke. Oct. 21. 1836. 



REVIEWS. 



Murray, Alexander, M. D. : The Northern Flora ; or, a De- 

 scription of the Wild Plants belonging to the North and 

 East of Scotland. With an Account of their Places of 

 Growth and Properties. Part I. Edinburgh ; Adam and 

 Charles Black : Aberdeen ; A. Brown and Co. : London ; 

 Smith, Elder, and Co.* 



The organisation, classification, nature, and uses of the 

 various subjects of the vegetable kingdom, one of the fairest 

 portions of creation, comprehending the green herb in which 

 the earth is arrayed ; the beautiful flowers with which it is 

 adorned ; and the delicious fruits and seeds, both the means 

 of their future reproduction, and the chief sustenance of living 

 creatures; have been illustrated by many expensive and 

 excellent works. 



Publications on local botany exceed all these in interest and 

 utility. A botanist, with a little exertion, can gather or pro- 

 cure all the plants described in such treatises, while the sub- 

 jects of more general and extensive floras are beyond his 

 abilities to reach, or his means to procure. The authors of 



* We have previously noticed this work. The present review is from 

 a correspondent. 



