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of the camichi, through the medium of that very useful and 

 important discovery, the quinary system. Thus, for ex- 

 ample's sake, suppose these said spurs were once normal 

 or typical on the legs ; but, by some rather obscure process 

 having become aberrant, they made an approach or passage 

 to the wings; while the bird itself was progressing in the 

 circle, or leading round, in order to inosculate with the 

 posteriors of its antecedent. He who clearly comprehends 

 the quinary system will readily understand this. 



If I had time just now, I would call in question the pro- 

 priety of the assertion that the rook " is furnished with a 

 small pouch at the root of the tongue ; " and I would finish 

 by showing the reader that the author of the second edition 

 of Montagu was dozing when he deprived the rook (Corvus) 

 of the good old sensible epithet frugilegus, and put that of 

 prsedatorius in its place. [See Vol. IV. p. 424.] 



Walton Hally Feb, 10. 1832. Charles W^aterton. 



Art. V. Entomological Notes on a Journey through several 

 English Counties, and in Wales and Ireland, during July and 

 August, 1831. By A. H. Davis, F.L.S. 



On the 18th of July I left London, and proceeded, byway 

 of Birmingham and Shrewsbury, to Capel Cerig, in North 

 Wales, where I designed staying a day, and then Ascending 

 Snowdon. The weather, which had been unsettled for seve- 

 ral days, became, as I proceeded, excessively cold and vvet ; 

 and, on my arrival at Capel Cerig, the rain fell in torrents, 

 and continued the whole evening, detaining me within doors 

 The windows of the inn were constantly visited by many tri- 

 chopterous insects, so that I was not without sport ; and in^this 

 way I took a fine series of Phryganea varia, and several species 

 of Limnephilus. The two succeeding days continued very wet, 

 with much wind ; during the intervals of the heavy showers I 

 collected a little in a plantation, and on the mountain opposite 

 the inn. Among other captures may be named, of Coleoptera, 

 Cychrus rostratus, Carabus glabratus ; pitchy varieties of Cara- 

 bus catenulatus, Malthhius nigricoUis, Colymbetes affinis ; of 

 Lepidoptera, Eupith^cia nova species ?, Ypsolophus costellus, 

 Anchylopera retusana ; of Neuroptera, Perla minor ; of 

 Trichoptera, Leptocerus azureus and bifasciatus, Phryganea 

 minor ; of Hymenoptera, Nematus varipes ; of Diptera, 

 Sphegina nigra, Loxocera echneumonea, and a beautiful spe* 

 cies of Macrocera. 



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