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We have much pleasure in calling the attention of our readers to the 

 above very useful and complete Catalogue of our British Mosses ; it is in 

 every way suitable for marking desiderata or duplicates, for transmission 

 through the post, as well as for labelling collections. We gladly take this 

 opportunity of mentioning, that the same gentlemsni has published classified 

 lists, for similar purposes, on many branches of Natural History ; such, for 

 instance, as our marine, as well as land and fresh-water Shells, Algae, Lichens, 

 Hepaticse, Reptiles, Ferns, Zoophytes, Grasses, &c. To any one requiring 

 catalogues for labelling their collections, or other purposes, (and who, that 

 reads The Naturalist, does not?) we (jordially recommend Mr. Dixon's 

 series of catalogues, as we know them to be most carefully compiled and 

 ai'ranged. 



A List of the British Species of Geodephaga, for marking desiderata and label- 

 ling collections ; taken from Mr. Dawson's Geodephaga Biitannica. By G. 

 Guyon. Richmond : Surrey. Post-free, for four stamps. 



The objects of this List are manifest; and we have no doubt it will prove 

 valuable to all our Coleopterists. The extensive changes and corrections 

 made in the nomenclature and arrangement of the carnivorous ground 

 Beetles, by Mr. Dawson, will lead to the re-arrangement of numerous collec- 

 tions of this tribe, and this List will be a valuable aid in making the change. 

 Mr. Dawson is a very high authority in this branch of Natural History ; and 

 though the changes he has introduced are very extensive, we believe he has 

 good grounds for making them We have, for many years, collected coleop- 

 tera, and we readily confess, that Mr. Dawson's valuable work has cleared 

 away many of our difficulties. The List is printed in good type, and on good 

 paper ; but owing to its being on both sides of the sheet, two copies must 

 be cut up in labelling a collection. It would have been an advantage to Ifave 

 had some copies printed on only one side of the paper, as in " Curtis' Guide." 



Pisdlanms ptias. 



Note on the Rufous Warbler, (^don galactodes.) — In the " Zoologist," for 

 November, 1854, p. 4511, there is a notice of the occurrence of this bird in 

 Sussex, on the Downs, at Plumpton Bosthill, about six miles from Brighton, 

 This note is unaccompanied by any description, and as the bird is quite new 

 to the British Fauna, I send you the following, in the hope that it may 

 prove interesting to your ornithological readers, and useful in determining 

 the species, should it again be met with. Gen. JEdon, Boie. — Bill, thrush- 

 like ; the sides much compressed ; tip, bent, entire ; gape smooth ; nostrils, 

 oval. Tarsus, lengthened; feet, very strong; toes, short, — the inner shorter 



