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easily secured. — Doncaster Gazette, Feb. 2. QWe conceive that want of water, 

 and not the severity of the frost, affected these birds.— Ed.] 



Cabbage Butterfly abroad in February. — On the 3rd of February, during 

 a severe frost, we noticed a specimen of the common Cabbage Butterfly (Pontia 

 brassicce.) — Ed. 



Pheasants and Pheasant-hunting in Norfolk. — The Pheasant is very 

 abundant in the several preserves in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, and is 

 the cause of serious frays between the poachers and the gamekeepers. I consider 

 the preserves a curse to these counties, as nothing tends to demoralize the 

 poorer classes so much as holding out such tempting inducements for them to 

 pursue these unlawful depredations. It u no unusual circumstance to see, in 

 some of the extensive parks, several hundreds of these birds out feeding at the 

 same time. — J. D. Salmon, Godalming, Surrey, Dec. 23, 1837. 



Frozen Otter. — On Saturday week (Jan. 20) Captain Maxey found a fine 

 Otter frozen fast in the ice in the canal, and presented the specimen to the Swan- 

 sea Institution. — Doncaster Gazette, Feb. 2. 



Notes on Tetracnemus diversicomis, Westwood. — This insect is figured in 

 the Magazine of Natural History, p. 258, with four branches to the antennae. 

 ' When I first saw it I thought it was the same as my Ceraphron ramicornis 

 (Boehm. ?), being very similar, as far as antennae go; but mine is more like Mr. 

 Curtis's figure of C. Halidayi, but that has only three branches to the antenna?, 

 and is scarcely more than half its size. I took my specimen on Knighton Heath, 

 near Dorchester, Aug. 11, 1835, and Mr. Westwood's T. diversicomis on Oak, 

 in Coombe Wood, July 3, 1835. — J. C. Dale, Glanville's Wootton, Dorsetshire^ 

 July 9, 1837. 



Capture of the Eagle Owl (Strix bubo) off Flamborough Head. — A 

 specimen of this rare British bird was captured off that celebrated headland 

 Flamborough Head, after alighting upon the mast of a sloop sailing by, and was 

 with difficulty secured, after it had actually pinned down with its powerful 

 talons the cabin boy, who had been sent aloft to seize it. — Patrick Hawkridge, 

 Scarborough, Aug. 7, 1837. 



Birds observed near Doncaster during the Frost. — * * * But than these 

 rarer objects have presented themselves to the notice of the lover of Ornithology. 

 Many of them have fallen before the deadly tube of the gunner ; but all of them 

 have been observed in this neighbourhood : — The Bittern, the Dun Diver, the 

 Goosander, the Smew, the Green Sandpiper, the Tufted Duck, the Pochard, the 

 Scaup Duck, the Shieldrake, the Crossbill, the Crested Grebe, the Barnacle Goose, 

 the Sanderling, the Royston or Norway Crow, &c. A pied Partridge has also 

 been shot ; and a few days ago four white Swans were seen passing over Balby, 

 by Mr. Crawshaw, of Warmsworth. — Doncaster Gazette, Feb. 2. 



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