CHAPTER OF VARIETIES. 



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zontal. These leaves, which are extremely hard and tough, are round, 

 scabrous, strongly imbricated, and exhibit at the footstalks flowers, 

 which are sessile, and of a violet colour, somewhat approaching to red. 

 Although very familiar with the genera Triptilion, Escallonia, Muti- 

 sia, Viola, the particular aspect of these alpine species caused me to 

 mistake them entirely, and I did not discover to what genus they be- 

 longed, until I studied them after my return." 



MIGRATORY BIRDS IN CORNWALL. I have taken the liberty of 

 sending 1 to you a list of birds that frequent this neighbourhood in the 

 summer ; together with a few others which visit us in the winter. 

 Should you deem them worthy of insertion in the " Field Naturalist," 

 you will oblige your constant reader, 



Those marked with an asterisk are rare. 



Arrival. Departure. 



Chiff Chaff ( Trochilus rufa) - 

 Swallows^ (Hirundo, rustica and urLica) 

 Curlew, (Scolopax Arquata) - 

 Reed Bird (Ripcecola arundinacea) - 

 Cuckoo ( Cuculus canorus) 

 Whitethroat (Sylvia cinerea) 

 Turtle Dove (Columba Turtur) 

 Bearded Tit* (Pants Biarmicus) 

 Black-cap Warbler* (Sylvia Atricapilla} - 

 Spotted Fly Catcher* (Muscicapa Grisola) 

 Red-backed Shrike* (Lanius Collurio) - 



The following birds visit us in the fall of the year and depart in 

 spring : wild goose, wild duck, wigeon, teal, heron, woodcock, snipe, 

 lapwing, dottrel, terns, redwing, bluebird, and kingfisher ; after minute 

 observation I may venture to say none of these birds breed here. 



The long -tail tits, together with a host of golden-crested wrens and 

 other tits, I have observed this winter (as is usual with them) con- 

 gregated together, flying from tree to tree in perfect friendship. 



P.S. Should these my first gleanings be acceptable, I shall always feel 

 happy in doing my best endeavours to contribute to your interesting 

 Magazine. E. P. 



Penzance, Cornwall. 



The Swift and Bank Martin are very rare in this neighbourhood. 



