140 MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES. 



Plialangista cavifrons, Temm. Fisch. 

 Wag. Schreb. Schinz. P. rufa, F. 

 Cuv. Desm. P. alba et rufa, Geoff. 



Plialangista vulpina, Desm. Temm. F. 

 Cuv. Griff. Schinz. Didelphis vul- 

 pina et leniurina, Shaw. 



{To be continued.) 



Btallmtrons IMxm. 



Toitoises. — About two years ago Mr. Cooch, of Cromer, had a Tortoise 

 given him, which he thinks had not been long in this country. Having 

 been placed in his garden, it was found to have scratched a hole in one 

 of the borders, and laid three eggs. Also a Tortoise in this garden laid 

 one egg, and died the following winter. — The Ven. Archdeacon Glover, 

 in a letter to Mr. Bree. 



Peregrine Falcon. — On reading the "Anecdote of a Sparrow," at page 

 66 of "The Naturalist" for the present month, it occurred to me that 

 the following somewhat similar suspension of the power of flight in a more 

 noble bird, might be worth inserting among your Miscellaneous Notices. 

 Some winters ago, two labourers brought me a very fine live specimen, I 

 believe of the Falco peregrinus of Linnaeus, which they had picked up in 

 a field about two miles east of this town. It was in excellent condition 

 for stuffing, perfectly clean, and without the least appearance of having 

 been shot. I could not at first believe that a bird looking as that did 

 was unable to fly; but, on raising it up, and letting it go to try, it 

 fell to the ground on its breast, without being able to use its wings 

 in the least, not even to break its fall. I put it in a box, with the 

 intention of sending it to a friend of mine at the Ashmolean Museum, 

 to get it stuffed for me in Oxford, but as I was covering the box over, 

 my daughter, who was watching the bird, gave him a piece of raw meat. 

 This he eat very quickly from her hand, which induced me to take him 

 out again, hoping that I might be able to keep him alive. I placed 

 him in my kitchen, where he was well fed, and at liberty to walk about, 

 but the bird did not seem inclined to do so for some days. He after- 

 wards began to jump on the spars of the chairs, but still seemed unable 

 to use his wings, although not a feather was injured. In about three 

 weeks he could manage to get on the backs of the chairs. From this 

 step in advance he got to the top of one of the doors when it stood 

 open, where he was very fond of perching for a long time together, but 

 was so perfectly tame that he would always allow himself to be lifted 

 down. This quiet disposition, so unlike others of the same family which 

 I had kept before, made him quite a pet. To mount on the top of 



