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London. The colour of tlie bird, Dr. Smith observed, was dark and light reddish brown, spotted 

 with dark brown; the lower parts of the head, and upper parts of the neck in front, pure 

 white; speculum, green, glossed with purple, and edged with black and light reddish fawn; 

 the tail, light drab, without spots, rather elongated, shaped somewhat like a Pheasant's, — 

 hence the name; and there was a striking patch of j'ellow on each side of the dusky bill. 



Dr. GitEViLLE, at the close of the meeting, informed the Societ}' tliat the Honourable Edward 

 Chitty, of Jamaica, had presented an extensive and valuable series of the Land and Fresh- water 

 Shells of Jamaica to the University Museum ; but being aware that in the present state of the 

 Museum, the absence of due accommodation would prevent the collection from being of any 

 use to the public were it deposited there, he had confided it for the present to the charge of 

 Sir William Jardine, Bart., Professor Balfour, and himself, (Dr. Greville,) as trustees. The 

 collection, which is arranged on the authority of Mr. C. B. Adams, Professor of Zoology in 

 Amherst College, Massachusetts, is now in Dr. Grcville's house, accessible at all times to gentlemen 

 desirous of consulting it. ^^-"S^h MU, 



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TFood Anemone, (Anemone nemorosa.) — Mr. Rothery remarks, vol. ii. page 208X;13ii4-B''V 

 Wood Anemones which he found in Westmoreland "were all more vor less tinged with pOT jjk ,' '^ 

 and attributes it to certain causes which he mentions. I do not remember ever to have seen 

 any Wood Anemone that was not flushed with purple; unless indcicd those which had been 

 bleached by age, sun, and wind. In the summer of 1848, I walked across a field near 

 Overton, in Cheshire, which was very thickly besprinkled with the Wood Anemone. They 

 cast a purple hue over the whole field. I have picked the flower in Somerset and in Devon, 

 in dense woods and on sunny banks; they all partook of the purple hue. I make no doubt 

 that season and soil, especially lime, may alter and deepen the colour of some flowers, still 

 I see no reason for believing any other than that pale purple is the natural and characteristic 

 colour of the Wood Anemone. The Lady's Smock, ( Cardamine pratensis,) blooms out a faint 

 purple, and presently it is bleached white. — IlENar Daniell, Montevidere, Torquay, October 

 18th., 1852. 



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Will any correspondent be kind enough to inform us how to propagate and cultivate the 

 Common Heed, {Ariindo Fhrayinitis,) round a pond with a gravelly bottom. — B. R. M. 



Inquiry as to Heronries in Berbijshire. — Having occasion about three or four years ago, in 

 the spring, to go to Howden, a shooting-box of the Duke of Norfolk's, in Derbyshire, on the 

 borders of Yorkshire, I there saw nailed against the barn two Herons which the gamekeeper 

 had shot, one of them nine days, and the other three or four weeks previously, as they were 

 seekin'' for trout about the fish-pond and in the river, (the Derwent,) which takes its rise 

 a few miles above on the moors. Can any of the readers of "The Naturalist" say where 

 they were likely to have strayed from, as I am not aware of any Heronries anywhere in the 

 neighbourhood. — T. S., Holmfirth, December 14th., 18o2. 



In reply to a former inquiry of mine in the Querist, respecting the different kinds of trees 

 that will grow from cuttings, Mr. Me'Intosh obligingly wrote to me saying that he would 

 take an opportunity of giving the desired information. As he has not yet done so, I should 

 be glad of this opportunity of again drawing his attention to the subject.— F. 0. Moiiiiis, Naff'crton 

 Vicarage, Driflield, February 1st., 1853. 



Could any of the contributors to "The Naturalist" inform me through the medium of its 

 pages, what is the comparative size of the eggs of the Goldfinch and Chaffinch.' Also, what 

 is the real colour of the eggs of the Sedge Warbler and Whinchat." The situation and number 

 of any shop in London where eggs may be procured? — H. S., Richmond, Yorkshire. 



On the 24th. of May, 1852, I found by the side of a small stream, a nest built of hay, roots, 

 small twigs, etc., and containing six eggs, rather larger than those of the Blackbird, but much 

 resembling them. Might not this be the nest of the Ring Ouzel? — Idem. 



