48 Mr. T. C. Eyton's Notes on Birds, 



nearly to the foreign than to the Irish plant ; and I have reason 

 to believe that all the ' London Pride' found ^^ wild'' in Great 

 Britain v^dll prove to be the blunt crenate-leaved plant, and to 

 have escaped from cultivation, or been intentionally planted. 

 St. John's Coll., Cambridge, Feb. 8, 1841. 



On Saxifraga umbrosa. 



The writer of the notice of Baines's ^Yorkshire Flora' begs to 

 state, in reference to Mr. Bree's paper, that he mentioned Sax- 

 ifraga umbrosa as abundant in the west and south of Ireland, 

 in consequence of having seen it himself in great quantity in 

 the west of the county of Cork during a botanical tour made 

 in the year 1811, and having heard from friends whom he 

 considered as good judges, that it is equally common in Con- 

 naught. He considered himself as knowing >S^. hirsuta and 

 S. Geum at the time he made the tour referred to ; and he is 

 confirmed in the belief that he did not commit an error, by 

 having now before him a MS. journal of a rather more ex- 

 tended tour through the same district in 1809 by Mr. James 

 Drummond, then curator of the Cork Botanic Garden, from 

 which it appears that Mr. Drummond found S. umbrosa 

 abundantly in the county of Cork, and also met with both 

 Geum and hirsuta in the mountains between Cork and Kerry. 

 The station of S. umbrosa at Thorpe Arch would be very 

 suspicious, had it not been noticed before the grounds were 

 ornamented as they are at present, and by such an accurate 

 botanist as, for example, the late Rev. W. Wood of Leeds. 

 Respecting the other Yorkshire stations the writer can give 

 no opinion. 



IX.— 'Notes on Birds, By T. C. Eyton, Esq., F.L.S. 



No. L 



I PROPOSE in the following series of papers to give from time 

 to time such extracts from my note-book relating to Birds as I 

 think likely to prove interesting to my readers ; the first por- 

 tions will be principally occupied with anatomical notes on 

 some Australian Birds received from Mr. Gould, and on some 

 received from Malacca. With regard to the former birds, it 

 is not my intention to go minutely into detail, or fiirther than 

 what I believe to be necessary to show the position of each 

 in a natural arrangement. I take this course, as I understand 

 that eminent anatomist, Mr. Owen, has undertaken to fur- 

 nish Mr. Gould, for his work on the ^ Birds of Australia,' with 

 a more detailed account. 



