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Felis Onca, Linn. Cuv. Temm. Fisch. 

 Felis Leopardus, Temm. Cuv. Fr. Cuv. 



Schinz. F. Pardus, Linn. Cuv. F. 



chalybeata, Schreb. F. antiquorum, 



Smith. Griff. 

 Felis Pardus, Temm. Schinz. F. vari- 



egata, Wag. Sch?'eb. F. melas, Fr. 



Cuv. Schreb. 

 Felis uncia, Schreb. Schinz. F. Irbis, 



Ehrenb. 



Felis macrocelis, Temm. Cuv. Schinz. 



F. nebulosa, Griff. 

 Felis Maracaya, Wag. Schinz. 

 Felis pardalis, Schinz. F. Ocelot, Tern. 

 Felis brasiliensis, Cuv. Wag. Schinz. 

 Felis tigrina, Schreb. Fr. Cuv. Geoff. 



Temm. Griff. Fisch. Wag. Schinz. 

 Felis macroura, Schinz. F. oceloides, 



Temm. F. Wiedii, Schinz. 

 Felis elegans, Less. Schinz. 



(To be continued.) 



BlisrrllnttBntts Jfnta. 



The Corn-crake, or Land-rail. — White states this bird to be rare in 

 his district, seldom seeing more than one or two in a season, and these 

 only in autumn. It has always been a regular visitor round this 

 neighbourhood during the suramar months, but I do not remember it as 

 early as this year. Yesterday, May 10th., in the forenoon, it was distinctly 

 heard in a grass field to the north of my house, and in the afternoon I 

 again listened to it in another field eastward. White doubts its being a 

 bird of passage, from its formation being so poorly qualified for migration. 

 Markwick entertains a different opinion, and says he has seen it fly very 

 swiftly, and the editor of a late edition of "White's Natural History of 

 Selborne," calls it a bird of passage and a summer visitor to this country; 

 its appearance therefore so early in the spring, and in such cold weather, 

 seems to me deserving of notice. — Thomas Fuller, Weston Road, Bath, 

 May, 11th., 1857. 



Singing- Birds near Large Towns. — That the smoke of our great town 

 of Leeds drives away our song birds is but too true. Seven or eight years 

 ago the Redstart, Common Linnet, and Golden-crested Wren were not 

 uncommon here, (about three-quarters of a mile from the outskirts of the 

 town,) but now they have nearly all disappeared. On the 29th. April this 

 year, however, I was rather surprised at seeing a Goldfinch in a field not 

 more than a quarter of a mile from the eastern border of the town. — 

 E. J. M. 



"April Showers bring Spring Flowers!" — Where were those showers this 

 year? What a month was last April! the wind north or north-east nearly 

 the whole thirty days. Snow, hail, and frost — sugar and rum at a discount 

 — not a moth or butterfly, — yes, one or two. On the 1st., Stabilis; on 

 the 8th., Bhamni; 16th., Gothica ; i'Oth., Instabilis; May 2nd., first white 

 Butterfly; P. brassicce on the 10th.; and on the 16th., H. abruptaria. The 

 first Swallow on the 15th. of April; Cuckoo on the 9th. of May; Swifts 



