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THE OCCURRENCE OF A HERD OF PORPOISES. 



Althcfa ojjicinalis, but not at this date in flower. 



On my homeward walk I noted in addition Potentilla anserina, Malva 

 sylvestris, and HypocTioeris radicata. 



Isaiah W. N. Keys, 



Plymouth, July 12th., 1851. 



ARRIVAL OF MIGRATORY BIRDS IN 

 THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF BLACKHEATH, KENT. 1851. 



BY H. J. C. 



DIRECTION or WIND. 



I have omitted in the above list several of those birds that are seldom 

 seen in this populated locality, such as the Cuckoo and others, thinking that 

 if I did, my dates might only mislead. 



Jtme VZtJi., 1851. 



THE OCCURRENCE OF A HERD 

 OF PORFOISES, (DELPHINUS PHOCjENA,) AT LAIRA. 



BY R. A. JULIAN, ESQ., JUN. 



On Friday morning, August 1st., a stone-cutter of the Granite works 

 came to me with the intelligence that seven or eight Porpoises, which had 

 come up Laira on the previous night at eleven o'clock, had remained there in 

 a deep pit, just above the iron bridge, during low water, at about three a.m., 

 and were at that time, (ten a.m.) to be seen sporting and rolling about just 

 above Saltram-point. I immediately went afloat, and with the aid of three 

 other boats, was enabled by shouting and splashing to deter the Porpoises from 

 going down with the tide, until about one o'clock, when the water had so far 

 receded that the depth under the bridge did not admit of their passing until 

 the tide again flowed. The force of boats was now considerably augmented, and 



♦ On this day, at about noon, tlie wind changed from N. W. to S. E , and then S.; and tlit) 

 temperature rose aliaut lOo higher than it had been previously. 



