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on the 12th.; saw a large flight of Fieldfares on the 2nd. The Dotterel 

 arrived last week on the lands adjoining the coast, where it generally 

 remains a week or so during its spring and autumnal migrations. — It. P. 

 Alington, Swinhope Rectory, May 18th., 1857. 



Sphinx Euphorbias at Box Hill. — On the 5th., in close proximity to a 

 favourite locality for T. pastinum, (the 'Black Neck,') I espied the above 

 rarity at rest on a fence, which I was not long in boxing. This is, I 

 believe, the first specimen ever taken in that neighbourhood. Within another 

 half-hour I had taken six of the Pastinum, when a continuation of smart 

 showers stopped collecting. P. alsus, (Little Blue,) was abundant; also 

 Galathea, (Marbled White.) Visited the same ground on the 6th., but 

 without success. Tried the sugar-pot to a late hour for Leucophcea, but 

 he would not come out; so that after boxing half a gross of small fry, 

 returned to the 'land of smoke.' — James Gardner, Naturalist, 52 ; High 

 Holborn, London. 



The Natural History Review. July, 1856, Part XL Price 2s. Gd. London : 

 Williams and Norgate. Dublin: Hodges and Smith. Edinburgh: 

 Williams and Norgate. 



The following are the contents of this Part, which contains three Plates: — 

 Review 1. — "Popular History of Palms and their Allies." By B. Seeman. 

 2. — "On the Variation of Species." By J. Vernon Wollaston. 3. — "Natural 

 History of the Animal Kingdom." By W. S. Dallas. 4.— "June; a Book 

 for the Country in Summer Time." By H. T. Stainton. 5. — "Shells and 

 their Inhabitants." By H. & A. Adams. 6. — "Introduction to Entomology." 

 By W. Kirby and W. Spence. Seventh Edition. 7. — "A Re-arrangement 

 of the Nomenclature of British Coleoptera. Part I. — Geodephaga-Philhy- 

 drida." By J. F. Dawson and Hamlet Clark. 8.— "The World of Insects; 

 a Guide to its Wonders." By J. W. Douglas, i). — "Practical Hints res- 

 pecting Moths and Butterflies." By R. Shield. 10.— "Manual of Ento- 

 mology. Vols. Ill — V." By Hermann Burmeister. 11. — "The Natural 

 History of Ireland. Vol. IV." By the late William Thompson. 



Original Communications made to Various Societies. 

 Proceedings of the Dublin Natural History Society. 

 I. — "Remarks on the Fungi of the South-west of Ireland." By William 

 Andrews, Esq. 



II.— "On the Genus Skua." By Charles Farrar, Esq., M.D. 



III. — "On the Occurrence of Rare Birds in Ireland." By Lord Clermont, 



IV. — "On Asplenium Trichomanes." By W. Andrews, Esq. 



