38 i Queries and Answers. 



should have been sorely mortified if I had failed in my 

 attempts to find them ; and, having found them, it would have 

 been impossible for me, under these circumstances, not to 

 have come in personal contact with them. 



I know not of any other form of words, by which I may 

 be enabled to persuade the reader that all is true which I 

 have written in the Wanderings. If I knew of any other 

 mode of persuasion, I would willingly adopt it here. — Charles 

 Waterton. 



Are Flamingoes ever seen in the long range of Coast, inter- 

 mediate between the Rhone and the Guadalquivir ? (p. 285.) 

 — During the pestilence which raged in Malaga at the 

 beginning of this century, as I was walking on the strand, 

 about a mile to the eastward of the city, twelve flamingoes 

 flew past me almost within gunshot. — Charles Waterton* 

 Walton Hall, May 6. 1833. 



The Question of the Wigeoris breeding in England. (Vol. V. 

 p. 383. 590. 679.) — In my communication of a " safe mode 

 of transporting eggs to be hatched" (Vol. V. p. 383.), I men- 

 tioned having found a wigeon's nest,, with eggs in, upon a 

 heath. Mr. Waterton remarks (Vol. V. p. 590.), " it is the 

 first time I ever heard of a wigeon building in England ; " 

 and asks if I reared the young? Now, Sir, to be candid, I 

 was not aware, until Mr. Waterton put the question, but 

 that the wigeon did breed in England ; and I thank him 

 for his correction of the error. It must, doubtless, have been 

 a teal, instead of a wigeon. In regard to rearing the young, 

 that was a failure. Had I then known of the vermicelli 

 (Vol. VI. p. 269.), I have little doubt that the young ones 

 might have been reared. — J. C. 



Of what Species {in Systematic Ornithology) is the Greenfinch 

 of Pennsylvania ? — R. C. Taylor, in his delectable descrip- 

 tion of an American "ice storm," (p. 97 — 103.) says, in 

 p. 102., " Flocks of greenfinches continued in the vicinity of 

 the warm springs, near my residence, throughout the winter." 

 [January and February, 1832.] What species of Green- 

 finch is here spoken of ? — E. B. June, 1833. 



It is said that a Worm, if cut properly, may be multiplied 

 into many new Worms. — When we look at a worm, we are apt 

 to look at it as one creature ; but we are, in reality, looking at 

 an aggregate of several creatures, which, for the present, are 

 united, but may, if we please, be disjoined. {Rev. C. S. Bird*, 

 in Entomological Magazine, p. 108.) 



This seems said of the earth-worms (Z/umbrici) : can any 

 correspondent vouch for its verity in relation to thern ? — J. D. 



