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waking dreams, or, possibly, that it had stimulated him to exercise his craft — his 

 notorious love of invention — with a view to the improvement and multiplication 

 of his Christmas comforts ! — Ed. Nat.~] 



Specimens of the Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garruld) shot in York- 

 shire. — A few specimens of this elegant bird have been taken with us, and others 

 seen during the winters of 1830, 1832, and 1835, The pair in my small col- 

 lection was shot in the latter year, near Scarborough, and kindly given to me by 

 Mr. Benjamin Shaw. — Patrick Hawkridge, Scarborough, Aug. 7, 1837. 



Nyssia zonaria. — -At the meeting of our Natural History Society on Tuesday, 

 specimens of the above interesting addition to our Fauna were exhibited to the 

 members by Mr. F. Taylor, several eminent entomologists having been over 

 from Manchester a few days before, and captured a large quantity. Mr. Cooke 

 has also had great success in meeting with a good supply. A single specimen of 

 the male was taken on the Rushes about half a mile below the Black Rock, at 

 New Brighton, near Liverpool, in September, 1832 ; and about the middle of the 

 same month, in the following year, from twelve to twenty specimens of the same 

 insect, both males and females, were taken in the same locality. The discoverer 

 was Mr. Nicholas Cooke, of Liverpool. Mr. Eveleigh, then President of the I 

 Banksian Society of Manchester, supposing it to be an entirely new species, took 

 three specimens to London, for the purpose of having them described in the 

 Entomological Magazine. Mr. Newman submitted them to the notice of Mr. 

 Stephens, who had never seen anything like them before. Mr. Newman then 

 applied to Mr. Children, whose entomological library stands unrivalled in this 

 country, and who informed Mr. N. that the insect was Nyssia zonaria of both 

 Hubner and Duponchel. The following description is copied from the Ento- 

 mological Magazine : — 



" Antenna?, with cilia?, black, the shaft white ; pilosity of mesothorax very 

 long, dark brown, with two longitudinal white lines, and a dash of white at the 

 base of each wing ; body nearly black, with six delicate rings, of a pinkish-yellow 

 colour; fore wings brown, with two oblique, transverse, white lines nearly 

 parallel with the exterior margin, and within these are irregular white markings 

 on the disk ; hind wings white, with two broad bands, and the nervures brown ; 

 legs black, the tarsi annulated, with white. The female apterous, with seven 

 rings on the body. The size is, as nearly as may be, that of Nyssia hispidaria!' 

 — T. B. Hall, Woodside, near Liverpool, April 4, 1838. — fJThe genus Nyssia 

 belongs to the order Lepidoptera, and contains three British species. — 'Ed.] 



Animals eat in proportion to their Temperature. — Warm-blooded animals 

 are continually eating ; birds, whose temperature is the highest, incessantly, if 

 they can obtain food ; whereas the cold-blooded little and seldom. Some make 



