80 Scientific Intelligence. [Jan. 



Salicoques, in the Nile which he termed Palaemon Niloticu and 

 Pelias Niloticus. 



M l Mokatan, in the neighbourhood of Cairo, consists essentially of 

 a limestone with nummulites, affording fine specimens of a species 

 belonging to the genus Xantho. Egypt is well supplied with birds 

 of prey, and contains most of those found in France. M. Roux saw 

 a Fringilla approaching the Cisalpina of Temminck. In Fayoum 

 he noticed flocks of pelicans to the amount of thousands, which 

 produced a noise resembling the discharge of musketry when they 

 struck the water with their wings in attempting to rise. They 

 appear easily capable of being domesticated. Mr. Hey an English- 

 man, possessed one which used to fly to the marshes adjoining the 

 Nile for the purpose of procuring food, but returned regularly to 

 the canja of its master. 



Immense flocks of Anas Cinereus, se^etum and albifrons, and 

 perhaps also erythropus, may be observed in the morning and even- 

 ing ; the egypticus is found principally in the rocks of the Arabian 

 chain. M. Roux found a new insect belonging to Aptera hexapodes 

 among the sands at Giseh, which he terms Necrophylus arenarius, 

 The birds embalmed were Neophron permopterus, a species oifalco. 

 (faucon crassarelle,) Sparvius palumbarius, Ibis fascinellus. At 

 Saccarah he never noticed Ibis sacer. 



IX. — Summary of a Meteorological Register kept at Eccles* 

 Berwickshire. By the Rev. James Thomson. 



Barometer. Thermometer. 



December 1833 . . . 28*960 43°-6 



January 1834. . . . 29*411 38°*5 



February — -570 40°-l 



March — -531 45°4 



April —-765 46°-8 



May —624 55°2 



June —-526 60°-4 



July —-586 60°-8 



August ...... — -444 62°-2 



September — -594 55°-0 



October —-482 49°-9 



November — -510 43°-5 



Mean for 1834 29*500 50°- 11 



" 1833 29-257 



" 1832 .... . 29-523 



Mean for three years . . . 29*426 



* Eccles is situated in about 55° 40' N. L. 



ERRATUM.— Page 44, line 21.— The quantity of oxide here given is what is 

 contained in 100 grains of the mineral. 

 Page 70 last line, for 880-6 read 80°'5. 



