470 Remarks on the Caprimulgus near Lima, 



beautiful. The multiplication of the flame, with the haloes of 

 iridescent light which accompanied these flames, or images, 

 and the modification of the phenomena produced by causing 

 the feather to revolve, were striking and beautiful. — J, Mur- 

 ray, May 19. 1835. 



The Species of Caprimulgus which inhabits the Neighbourhood 

 of Lima, noticed by Mr, Matthews in VII. 633., and technically 

 described in 635., is, doubtless, the C. americdnus of Wilson's 

 " American Ornithology," vol. v. t. 40. fig. 1. — This identi- 

 fication is offered on a comparison of Mr. Matthews' s specimen 

 with Wilson's figure. The smallness of the bill, the absence 

 of vibrissas, the forked tail barred with white, and the mark- 

 ings of the wing feathers, accord entirely. — D, Don, \Lin- 

 naan Society's House, 32. Soho Square, Dec. 15. 1834.] 



[Mr. D. Don has obligingly shown me Wilson's figure : 

 the correspondence is as exact as need be. The figure ex- 

 hibits a somewhat larger bird. The female bird, and an egg> 

 are represented at the foot of the plate. The egg is just such 

 a one as Mr. Matthews has noted in VII. 633.] 



[A Mode of removing from Eggs their White and Yolk in 

 the Preparation of their Shell for Preservation, additional to 

 the Modes made known in IV. 145. ; V. 516, 517.; VI. 171* 

 1 72.] — When I was at Bridlington last year, in order to 

 acquire some certain knowledge of the water fowl and their 

 incubation [VIII. 162 — 169.], I made a discovery in the 

 blowing of eggs which I think will please you, and which 

 can be applied with great facility to eggs not smaller than 

 those of the thrush. I made one small hole in the side of the 

 egg, and then sucked out a little of the contents to create a 

 vacuum, or discharged that little by means of a small stick ; 

 then, taking the egg in my hand, I plunged my hand in 

 water to the wrist ; and, by shaking the egg while it was im- 

 mersed in the water, I very soon emptied it of its yolk and 

 white. I have shown this process to many people, and they 

 approve of it highly. This, added to what I have already 

 sent you, on preserving eggs for museums [V. 516, 517.], 

 will, I think, render the subject sufficiently easy and effica- 

 cious. — Charles Waterton, [in a letter dated] Walton Hall y 

 May 14. 1835. 



Fishes. — The Gravelling of the River Taw, a State of the 

 Common Salmon, is not "full of Roe" when it appears in the 

 Taw, as it is stated to be in p. 54. — Please to correct an 

 error which I have inexcusably and unaccountably fallen into in 

 my remarks on the gravelling of the Taw (p. 54, 55,), I have 

 stated there that, at the time of the appearance of the gravelling 

 in the Taw, they are " full of roe : " this is unquestionably a 

 mistake. — O. Clapton, Feb, 11. 1835. 



