64 MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES. 



A Pied Blachhird, (Turdus merula.) — I had a very fine specimen of this 

 bird brought me for preservation; it was the largest and fattest I ever saw. 

 There were several perfectly white feathers on the neck and breast, and the 

 back was beautifully spotted. — M. Westcntt, Wells, Somerset, Novemher 2Qth., 

 1851. 



Note on the Jackdaw. — As H. Crease, waggoner to Joseph Parsons, Esq., 

 was walking through the cathedral yard a few days ago, he observed a Jackdaw 

 standing on one of the twelve apostles, very busily engaged with something 

 in his bill. After watching him some time, he let it fall, and it proved to 

 be a penny piece of George the Third's reign. — Idem. 



Hemarhs on certain species of Microlepidoptera. — In his concluding paper 

 on Scotch Lepidoptera, your correspondent, Mr. Gray, in speaking of the genus 

 Lozotoenia of Steph, makes L. Riheana a variety of Heparana, which, with 

 all deference to Mr. Gray, for whom I entertain a very high feeling of respect, 

 resulting from his philosophical views on the subject of Entomology, I cannot 

 allow to pass unnoticed, as I believe no entomologist, ancient or modern, 

 will agree with him, the species being perfectly distinct, and differing in the 

 larva state, no less than in the perfect insects. Sericoris '^-macidana and 

 Orthotaenia Antiquana are synonymous, (vide Doub. Cat. of Brit. Lepid.j) 

 but as the species occurs here in damp places among low herbage, the insect 

 found among fir trees is possibly different. Ypono7neuta Padella is probably 

 Y. Malivorella. Padella, which if a Scotch species at all is very scarce, feeds 

 on whitethorn. Cramhus Lijthargyrellus is probably C. Warringtonellus, Sta., 

 or the rayed variety of Perlellus, one or other of which was taken, I believe, 

 some years ago, near Dunbar, by Mr. E. Gray. — B. F. Logan, Duddingstone, 

 near Edinburgh. 



The Misseltoe has been found on the Oak at Penporthlenny, parish of 

 Goitre, in this county; on one near Usk, and another at St. Dials, near 

 Monmouth. The only other accredited instance is at Godalming, in Surrey. 

 The same parasite was also found in Monmouthshire on the Ash, by the Rev. 

 J. Herbert; and in one instance in France by De Candolle. Mr. Herbert also 

 found it on the Elm in this county; and Mr. Taylor discovered an instance 

 at Strensham Court, Worcestershire. — From the Monmouthshire Gazette, sent 



by w. P. a 



Anomalies in Grasses. — I have this day found in Golden Acre Nursery 

 here, specimens of Elymus hordiformis and E. Canadensis: the first with 

 numerous fine spurs of Ergot, and the latter with a compound spike, resem- 

 bling five or six, but each of them shorter than the normal spike. Both 

 specimens were exhibited at the meeting of the Botanical Society this evening. 

 — J. B. Davies, Edinburgh, November 13^/i., 1851 . 



