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able to birds. Boys catch Bats by throwing the prickly heads into the air. 

 These hooked points tend to the dispersion of the seed, by adhering to the coats 

 of animals, &c. Cows and Goats eat it. Sheep and Horses refuse it. Swine 

 are not fond of it. The larva? of the Ghost Moth (Hepialus Humuli) feed upon 

 the roots, and the larvae of the Mottled Orange Moth upon the stems : within 

 which the chrysalis may be found about the month of August, especially in 

 stunted specimens. 



SKETCHES OF EUROPEAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



Gould's " Birds of Europe," Part XVI. 



By Neville Wood, Esq. 



(Continued from p. 359 of this Volume.) 



Since the appearance of The Naturalist for July, we have received The Analyst 

 for the same month, and are glad to find that the articles on Mr. Gould's work, 

 commenced by ourselves, will be continued in that Journal, as we consider it due 

 to its subscribers that the series should not be left unfinished. The paper in The 

 Analyst for July, however, appears to be a mere condensed analysis, and is 

 probably not written by a practical naturalist. At all events the errors it con- 

 tains have an awkward appearance ; the same attention is paid to the most 

 common as to the rarer species, and important particulars are often passed in 

 silence. Our aim is to impart to the student, and to our readers generally, a 

 correct knowledge of the rarer British birds, and of exotic species, conceiving that 

 Sparrows and Sparrow Hawks must be familiar to any one Who desires to learn 

 their history. We wish, moreover, by interspersing remarks of our own, and 

 those of other authors, among those which we distinctly acknowledge, by marks of 

 quotation, to be obtained from our author, to render the papers still more useful, less 

 servile, and more satisfactory both to Mr. Gould and to our subscribers. There- 

 fore, while applauding the spirit which has induced the present Editor of The 

 Analyst to continue the critical articles in his Journal, yet, for the reasons above 

 cited, as well as on account of the desire expressed to that effect by several of our 

 most esteemed correspondents, we shall, as before proposed (p. 353), conclude the 

 present series in the pages of The Naturalist. 



Part XVI. — Gorget Calliope, Calliope Lathamii, — Calliope, Fr. — Our au- 

 thor has constituted a new generic group for this species, which appears to hold 

 an intermediate station between the Thrushes and the Nightingales, having many 

 points in common with the members of both those genera. " In naming this 



