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been prolonged. The nature of the sawdust not offering 

 sufficient resistance in order to accomplish the desired end, 

 the bird instinctively picked the smaller pieces of wire , used 

 to bind the cage together, to compensate for this deficiency 

 on the part of its owners. Much instinct was shown in the 

 manner in which it had folded the pieces of wire in order to 

 swallow them ; most of the pieces when doubled and twisted 

 measured one third of an inch in length, but when unfolded 

 measured nearly one inch. The contents of the gizzard af- 

 ter having been washed and dried, weighed 26.6 grains. — 

 Daniel Cooper, 82, Blackfriars Road. 



We see by an announcement on the advertising sheet of our present 

 number, that the collection of objects in Natural History, formed by 

 Dr. Andrew Smith, in South Africa, and which has, for some time 

 past, been exhibiting at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, is shortly to be 

 put up to public sale. We observe also that the skull of the Deino- 

 therium, the discovery of which has recently excited so much attention 

 among naturalists, along with a large series of tertiary fossil Mamma- 

 lia, the property of Dr. Klipperstein, of Gissen, is advertised for sale 

 through Mr. Sowerby, of Great Russell Street. — Ed. 



LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. 



Shortly ivill be published a monograph on the Anatidae or 

 Duck Tribe, including the geese and swans. Illustrated by 

 twenty-four lithographic plates, chiefly by Goued, Scharf, 

 and Lear, and upwards of seventy wood-cuts, illustrating the 

 forms of the bills and the feet in the different genera. By 

 Thomas C. Eyton, Esq. F.L.S. Author of a history of the ra- 

 rer British Birds, intended as a supplement to Bewick. 



Kollars Natural History of Injurious Insects, reviewed at 

 p. 235 of this Magazine, has been translated into English, 

 and will shortly be published. It will be illustrated with 

 engravings, and edited by Mr. Westwood. 



Professor Thomas Rymer Jones, of King's College, Lon- 

 don, is engaged in writing a general outline of the animal 

 kingdom, exhibiting the structure and internal economy of 

 every class of living beings, and their adaptation to the cir- 

 cumstances in which they are severally destined to exist. 



The work will be systematically illustrated by an exten- 

 sive series of drawings by the author, and published on the 

 plan of Professor Bell's, and Mr. Yarreli's works on British 

 Zoology. 



John Van Voorst, Paternoster Row, April 23rd, 1838. 



