8 NOTES ON THE FBOa. 



During moist, waiin nights, in July and August, we may often fall in with 

 great numbers of Frogs not larger than the finger-nail ; at such times they 

 quit the water to see the world on shore, and skip nimbly about the wet 

 grass in search of food ; by this means getting gradually dispersed. They 

 often swarm to such an extent, as to cause some people to entertain a 

 fallacious idea of their having fallen from the clouds. 



" Greene Frogs, ingendered by the seed of slime, 

 First without feete, then leggs assume; now strong 

 And apt to swimme, their hinder parts more long 

 Than are their former, framed to skip and jump."* 



These little creatures are ever full of life and activity. I never watch their 

 motions but with pleasure, and think how happy they seem. Then, again : 

 How admirably Divine Wisdom has created them for performing the several 

 useful ends and functions of existence ! Note how wonderfully the tongue 

 is framed for securing prey. A buzzing curious fly, perhaps, settles near; 

 and, before the eye can detect any movement, it is swallowed by the watch- 

 ful creature. How beautifully proportioned are its limbs ; and how well 

 adapted for progression, both on land and in water ! How gracefully, and 

 with what celerity, it swims about; and Avhat extraordinary leaps it can 

 make ! Yes : even in this despised of Nature's work we trace the lineaments 

 of that true perfection apparent in the humblest weed, or lowest thing that 

 breathes. 



" These are Thy glorious works. Parent of Good ! 

 Almighty ! Thine this universal frame, 

 Thus wondrous fair! Thyself how wondrous then! 

 Unspeakable ! who sit'st above the heavens, 

 To us invisible, or dimly seen 

 In these Thy lowest works ; yet these declare 

 Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine ! " + 



(To he continued.J 



NOTES ON THE REDBREAST {ERYTHACA RUBEOULA.) 



THE AMATEUR (FEATHERED) CHORISTERS, 



DOMESTICATED IN THE CRYSTAL PALACE, SYDENHAM. 



BY WILLIAM KIDD, ESQ. 



The constancy of my love for that truly amiable little fellow, the Robin, is 

 no secret. I have chronicled personal anecdotes out of number of him and 

 his tribe; and I have enjoyed the satisfaction of seeing nearly all these 



* Sandy's Ovid, ICiO. + Milton. 



