186 NEW STATION FOR LECANORA ROBRA. 



Sir, your obliged Servant, W. Borreb. Henfield, June 1 6th, 1855. I thank 

 you for the specimen." 



My object for inserting this in the pages of The Naturalist, is not only 

 to record the locality, but to ascertain whether it has been met with by any 

 other botanists. If so, I shall be most happy to exchange specimens with 

 them. 



Ayton, near Stokesley, Yorkshire, 

 Qth Month, 20, 1855. 



Peoples Edition. Kidd's Treatises on Song-Birds. THE CANARY. By 

 William Kidd of Hammersmith. Editor of Kidd's Journal and Book of 

 Nature. London : Groombridge. p.p. 26, with engravings, Is. 



Although we are no " bird fancier," yet loving to hear them in their native 

 wildness ; we have been greatly pleased with the little volume before us. 

 Every point necessary for a bird's happiness and comfort under confinement 

 is attended to, and pointedly touched upon with a master's hand. We only 

 trust this little book may be taken as a manual by all tliose who are in the 

 habit of keeping Canaries ; and we are confident neither they nor their birds 

 will ever have cause to regret it. The spirit of humanity and sound sense 

 which pervades all the directions cannot be attended to without benefit to 

 both masters, mistresses, and pets ; and yet there is a vein of fun pervading 

 the whole, which is infinitely amusing ; " tria juncta in uno." As a specimen 

 of humanity, sound sense, and fun, wo quote the following : 



" In order to ' pair ' your birds properly, place my lady in one small cage, and my 

 lord in another. Suspend them in the same room, one above the other ; so that they 

 may hear each other, without obtaining a personal view. Curiosity is now excited I 

 Only act thus cruelly for one day. On the morrow, let the two cages be suspended 

 opposite each other, — one on either side of the room. Turn the wires to the wall ; and 

 let only the circular hole at the hack of the cage giv^ the twain a ' bird's eye view ' of 

 each other. Thereupon, much fun will ensue. There will be such a stretching out of 

 necks through these odd little peep-holes ! Such honey- dew dropt from the hps of the 

 lovers, as their eyes come into seductive contact ! All day long, they will keep you in 

 unceasing merriment. Courtships, we all know, are droll things. The little we see of 

 them, tells us what they must be when no one but the actors are together. A-hem 1 

 On the third day, trifle with your prisoners no longer. Art now must give place to 

 Nature. Turn the two cages close together for some half-dozen hours. A few ' chaste 



