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be the apparatus for extending the leg and foot; for on compressing the lapper 

 part of the tube, . the fluid is propelled from that portion of the limb towards the 

 lower extremity, so as to extend the limb in a straight line, or even to cause it 

 to curve in the reverse direction, while, on the pressure being removed, the lower 

 part of the limb returns, by its own elasticity, into a sort of inward coil. It may be 

 that this elasticity of the articulated portion of the lower limbs, and its disposition 

 to coil inwards, when the compression of the muscles upon the upper part of 

 the tube is withdrawn, is enough to propel the body of the Spider forwards. 

 The Star-fish has limbs similarly moved. 



Bewick Folly, June 2Sth, 1851. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FAUNA OP FALMOUTH. 



BY W. P. COCKS, ESQ. 

 (Continued from page 114.^ 

 Great Snipe, (Scolopax major,) Penn. — One shot in the Marsh, Gwyllyn 

 Vase, December, 1818: rare. 



Common Snipe, (Scolopax gallinago,) Penn. — Common. Mr. N. Tresidder 

 has one in his possession of a cream- colour. 



Jacli Snipe, (Scolopax gallinula,) Penn. — Not uncommon. 

 Curlew Sandpiper, (Tringa subarquata,) Flem. — Gwyllyn Vase, Swanpool: 

 not common. 



Knot, (Tringa canutus,) Mont. — Bar point, Grwyllyn Vase, Swanpool: not 

 uncommon. 



Little Stint, (Tringa minuta,) Flem. — Bar point, Gwyllyn Vase, Swanpool, 

 Pennance: not uncommon. 



Pectoral Sandpiper, (Tringa pectoralis,) t/ewyns. — Gwyllyn Vase, east: rare. 



Dunlin, (Tringa variabilis,) Selhj. — Gwyllyn Vase, Swanpool: not uncommon. 



Purple Sandpiper, (Tringa maritima,) Penn. — Bar point, Gwyllyn Vase, 



Swanpool, etc.: not common. November 22nd., 1846, one shot by Mr, Pascoe; 



1817, one by T, Passingham, Esq., Swanpool; 1848, one by Mr. G. Copeland, 



Pendennis Castle,' 



Landrail, (Crex pratensis,) Sellnj. — In the market: rare. 

 Spotted Crake, (Crex porzana,) Selhy. — November 1848, a specimen in the 

 market, but so mutilated as to be not worth preserving. October 1849, one 

 was shot by Mr. May, at Swanpool: now in the possession of Mr. Chapman. 

 Water-rail, (Rallus aquaticus,) Penn. — Swanpool, market, etc.: not uncommon. 

 Moorhen, (Gallinula chloropus,) Penn. — Swanpool, etc.: not uncommon. 

 Coot, (Fulica atra,) Penn. — Swanpool, etc.: not uncommon. 

 Grey Phalarope, (Phalaropus lobatus,) Bew. — October 0th., 1846, a fine 

 male bird, in full summer plumage, was captured alive by a miner: it is in the 

 possession of Mr. N. Tresidder. Mr. May, on the 12th of the same mouth, 

 shot four at Swanpool, and I examined upwards of thirty that season. 



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