Natural History in the English Counties,' 389 



Trfnga mlnuta ; Black sandpiper, Trf nga lincolniensis ; Brown sandpiper, 

 Tringa fusca ; Varieties of the knot, Tringa Canutiu ; Varieties of the ruff, 

 Tringa pugnax; Courland snipe, Totanus fuscus; Wood, or long-legged, 

 sandpiper, Totanus grallatorius ; Spotted sandpiper, Totanus maculatus ; 

 Greenshank, Totanus Glottis; Gambet, To/awMS Calidris ; Cinereous godwit, 

 5'c61opax canescens; Greater snipe, ♦S'colopax major; Brown snipe, ^Scolo- 

 pax grisea ; Sabine's snipe, (Scolopax Sabini ; Turnstone, Str^psilas collaris ; 

 Alexandrine plover, Charadrius alexandrinus ; Kentish plover, Charadrius 

 cantiacus ; Cream-coloured plover, Cursorius IsaheWinus ; Long-legged plo- 

 ver, Himantopus melanopterus ; Pratincole, Glarfeola torquata; Olivaceous 

 gallinule, Gallinula Foljambei ; Minute gal linule, Gallinula minijta; Grey 

 Phalarope, Phalaropus platyrhinchus ; Red-necked grebe, Podiceps rubn- 

 collis ; Sclavonian grebe, Podiceps cornutus ; Spotted guillemot of Latham, 

 young of black guillemot ; Black-throated diver, Col jmbus arcticus ; Gull- 

 billed tern. Sterna anglica; Glaucous gull, Larus glaiicus; Iceland gull, 

 iarus islandicus ; Great black-backed gull, Xarus marinus ; Ivory gull, iya- 

 rus eburneus ; Winter gull, iarus hybernus ; Tarrock, Zyarus tridactylus 

 junior ; Black-headed gull. Brown-headed Gull, and Brown gull, different 

 stages of Z/arus ridibundus ; Pomarine gull, iarus Pomarinus ; Arctic gull, 

 J^arus parasiticus; Fulmar petrel, Procellaria glacialis; Leach's petrel, Pro- 

 cellaria Leachii ; Wild swan, ^'nas Cygnus ; White-fronted goose, ^'nas 

 albifrons ; King duck, ^'nas spectabilis ; Eider duck (female), S'nas mollis- 

 sima; Black duck of Hudson's Bay, yi'nas perspicillata ; Red-breasted Sho- 

 veler, ^'nas rubens ; Bimaculated duck, J'nas glocitans ; Velvet duck (male), 

 ^'nas fusca ; Castaneous duck, J nas Nyroca. 



We have inserted the English, as well as the systematic, names, because 

 specimens may fall into the hands of many who know no other. But 

 while we publish the desiderata of a flourishing museum, it must not be for- 

 gotten that notices of many institutions may, from time to time, appear in 

 our pages, whose possessions would be much more easily enumerated than 

 their wants. These should not be overlooked by the sportsman or the tra- 

 veller ; and we hope that wealthy societies, having for their end the spread 

 of science, will give of their abundance to those which, in the present dif- 

 fused state of knowledge, may reasonably be supposed to have neither 

 funds for purchase nor duplicates for exchange. — f 



Lancashire. "^ ^ . 



Manchester Banksian Society. — This Society, the object of which is the 

 acquisition of knowledge in the sciences of entomology, botany, mineralogy, 

 geology, &c., was established so recently as the 5th of January, in the pre- 

 sent year, when a code of laws for its government was adopted, and a presi- 

 dent, treasurer, secretary, and committee, were appointed for the transaction 

 of business. The intentions of the Society are to be effected by means of a 

 library of books, conversational discussions, reading of papers, and occa- 

 sional lectures, illustrated by collections of specimens in the several sciences. 

 The collections of specimens are to be formed by the members, each of 

 whom is annually to contribute at least three perfect specimens. In col- 

 lecting specimens, and in the method of arranging them, the following plan 

 is to be observed : — 



Entomology. The insects to be arranged according to the most approved 

 system ; and, in collecting British specimens, it is expected that members 

 will, as often as practicable, observe their localities, habits, times of appear- 

 ance, &c., that memoranda may be kept of every thing interesting to the 

 naturalist, or useful to society. The foreign insects to be kept carefully 

 distinct from the British, and labelled " foreign." 



