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Isle of Man last summer, I shot a female Sky-lark minus the left foot, whilst in every other 

 respect tlie bird was apparently perfectly healthy.— Thomas Kiukham, Fairfield, Manchester, 

 February 5th., 1853. 



A List op Migratory Birds seen in the neighbouhhood op 

 Needuam Markkt, Suffolk, with the date op their first appearance in 1849-50-1-2.— By H.Linowood. 



As a proof of the mildness of the season it may be 

 14th.,) a Blackbird's nest, with four eggs hatched that 

 county." From the Norwich Mercury, January 22nd., 1853 



stated that on Friday last, (January 

 day, was found at Horsford, in this 

 . Hampden G. Glasspoole, Ormesby. 



The Common Vapourer Moth, (Orgyia antiqua,) is always a common enough insect, but I 

 have never seen or heard of its appearance, at least of that of its larvae, in anything like the 

 numbers in which they have appeared the present year, 1852, in the month of August, in which 

 also I have already seen three or four specimens of the perfect Moth on the wing, one of 

 them a bred one, while the majority are yet in the caterpillar state ; an unusually early period, 

 as I imagine, for the former. On the walls of the large flour and malt mill of Mr. Henry 

 Thompson, of this place, pear trees are trained to the top, to the height of sixty feet. All 

 these pear trees, three or four in particular, were infested with the caterpillars of this moth to 

 such an extent, that the leaves were almost totally destroyed, the fruit being much injured in 

 consequence. — F. 0. Morris, Naffertou Vicarage, Driffield, August, 1852. 



A Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Ferns gro^oing in the Neighbourhood 

 of Aberdeen. By P. H. Macgillivray, A. M. Aberdeen: J. A. Wilson j 

 London: Whittaker and Co. 1853. p. p. 44. 



The value of carefully compiled local Floras and Faunas has always been 

 acknowledged by us,- and it is with much pleasure that we direct attention 



