230 Miscellaneous. 



tion of the whole of which will be found in Jameson's Edinburgh 

 New Phil. Journ. vol. xxxi. (No. 62.) p. 371. But the writers are 

 mistaken in supposing that this phenomenon had hitherto escaped 

 notice, as a similar fact observed in the Flamingo was communicated 

 to the Zoological Society by Prof. Owen in 1832. As it appears 

 that the dissection of the Eider Duck was performed almost before 

 it was cold, the doubt suggested in the Editor's note, whether the 

 mucor may not have formed after death, is obviated, especially as a 

 part of it was found in full maturity. 



" August 28th, 1832. — Mr. Owen read some Notes on the Ana- 

 tomy of the Flamingo, Phoenicopteris ruber, Linn. : they were de- 

 rived from the examination of an individual which died about three 

 months since in the Society's menagerie. 



" The principal diseased appearances were in the lungs, which 

 were filled with tubercles and vomica. I was much struck with 

 finding the inner surface of the latter cavities, and that of most of 

 the smaller ramifications of the bronchial tubes, covered over with a 

 green vegetable mould, or mucor. As the individual was examined 

 within twenty-four hours after its death, it seemed reasonable to 

 conclude this mucor had grown there during the life-time of the 

 animal. Thus it would appear that internal parasites are not ex- 

 clusively derived from the animal kingdom, but that there are En- 

 tophyta as well as JEntozoa." 



[" The fact here stated must be regarded as a very interesting and re- 

 markable one : there is no reason, a priori, why Entophyta should not 

 exist; but in the case now before vis, — as a certain number of hours did inter- 

 vene between the death and the examination of the Flamingo, and we have 

 reason to believe that mucor will occasionally form very rapidly on dead 

 animal substances, while the vomica and bronchial tubes of the animal must 

 have contained matter in a high degree susceptible of being organized 

 (whether by seeds and ova or otherwise) into either mucor or animalcula, — 

 it is equally probable, perhaps, that the formation of the mucor did not take 

 place until after death. — Edit."] 



Philosophical Magazine, Jan. 1833, New Series, vol. ii. p. 71. 



On some Mammalia, Birds and Fishes lately observed in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Aberdeen.— Danbeiitoris Bat, Vespertilio Daubentonii, 

 Leisl., lately added to our Northern fauna by my father (Edin. 

 New Philos. Journ., October Number), occurs plentifully in the Ca- 

 thedral here ; a few weeks ago I found two clusters of about eighty 

 individuals attached to the roof, since which time they seem to have 

 retired to their winter quarters. Specimens from the locality in 

 question will shortly be exhibited in the British Museum. An ap- 

 parently undescribed Nycteribia was parasitical upon the bats, but 

 seemed to be rare : an Acarus infested the wings, in which I have 

 often found its nidus. Three species of Shrew have occurred this 

 summer. Sorex remifer was taken but once ; S. tetragonurus, Herm., 

 and S. rusticus, Jen., more frequently, and in about equal numbers. 

 Seven specimens of the two latter were procured from the stomach of 

 a Short-eared Owl, which I lately shot in this neighbourhood. It may 

 here be mentioned, that the owl alluded to was infested with an 



