MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES. 1G3 



Canis jubatus, Desm. Cuv. Schinz. C. 



campestris, Prinz Max. 

 Canis aureus, Linn. Schreb. Cuv. Schinz. 

 Canis anthus, Cretch. F. Cuv. Schinz. 



C. aureus, Hupp. 

 Canis mesomelas, Schreb. Cuv. Desm. 



Fisch. Schinz. 

 Canis antarctieus, Shazo. Desm. Schinz. 



C. lupaster, Ehren. I Canis cancrivorus, Desm. F. Cuv. Schinz. 



Canis variegatus, Cretch. Rupp. Schinz. | Viverra cancrivora, Meyer. Fisch. 



(To be continued.) 



SKisrtllimnms JSnta. 



Blackbirds. — As one of the sons of a farmer, at Croole, was going to 

 school on Thursday, he observed in a field two blackbirds fighting. He 

 pulled up to witness the combat, and they at last came so near that he 

 was in the act of raising his cane to strike them, when one of the birds 

 darted at him, and billed him just beneath the eye, causing the blood to 

 flow. The blow was so sudden and unexpected, that it stunned him for 

 the moment ; but on looking round, he found the bird laid dead at his 

 feet. — From the "Birmingham Journal," for April loth., 1857. 



The Cuckoo. — This bird was heard here on the 17th. of April, but 

 a farmer's boy who brings milk into the city, assures me that he heard 

 him a fortnight before. I should doubt this, but the boy is very 

 intelligent, and I have questioned him closely ; he is positive as to the 

 fact. There was a white frost the same morning. — Thomas Fuller, Bath, 

 May 11th., 1857. 



Carabus intricatus. — When digging for insects a few days since in the 

 neighbourhood of Plymouth, I had the good fortune to find three fine 

 and perfect specimens of Carabus intricatus, and the mutilated remains of 

 a fourth. These insects vary considerably in colour, some being tinged 

 with resplendent blue and violet, whilst others are dull and nearly black. 

 — John Gatcombe, Wyndham Place, Plymouth, May 18th., 1857. 



Rara Avis. — A female specimen of the Harlequin Duck, which is 

 perhaps the rarest of all the visitors to our coast, was killed on the 7th. 

 of April, at Maxstoke Castle, near Coleshill, in Warwickshire, by Mr. J. 

 S. Dugdale. It is very rarely the case that birds of this kind stray so 

 far inland. In this instance the Duck had been swimming about with 

 four Canada Geese for four or five days in a pond in Maxstoke Park, 

 and did not even offer to fly when stones were thrown at her. Tarrell 

 only records six instances of specimens of this species being obtained in 

 England. It breeds in Greenland, Iceland, and the most northern parts 

 of the American Continent. The bird is now in the hands of Mr. 

 Franklin, of Birmingham, for preservation. — "Davenport Journal." Com- 

 municated by Mr. T. Fogoit. 



