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the fact of the one already referred to being here. It is however considered 

 as a rare thing by the people. — Joseph B. Grant, Oxenhope Parsonage, near 

 Keighley, Yorkshire. 



The Ring Ouzel. — Having always understood that the Ring, or Rock Ouzel, 

 as it is here more generally called, left this country in October, I was much 

 surprised on Monday morning last, the 24th. inst., to see one in the garden 

 in front of our house come to feed upon some berries of the mountain ash, 

 some trees of which grow close to the house. There was at the same time 

 in the garden a male Blackbird come for the same purpose, but that caused 

 me no surprise, as it is almost their daily practice whilst the berries last, 

 and also with Throstles too. I don't recollect seeing the Ring Ouzel so late 

 in the season before. I thought I had some notes of having seen now and 

 then a straggler in the beginning of the month of November at diflFerent 

 times, but I cannot now find them, but I every year meet with them in 

 packs of from six or eight up to twenty or more upon the moors in this 

 neighbourhood in the latter part of the year (August and September,) feeding 

 upon the bilberries, which grow abundantly upon the moors. They generally 

 arrive here the first week in x\pril, about the 6th., 7th., or 8th. Some five 

 or six years ago 1 recollect meeting with one that had just arrived; I think 

 it was on the 7th. of April, which appeared in a very weakly condition, for 

 it allowed me to go very near to it before it would move. I set it up two 

 or thi-ee times, and followed it until it flew into a thorn tree, where it 

 allowed me to approach within about ten yards of it; and there I heard it 

 commence singing in a low tone, very much like a Throstle, quite different 

 to the song that it usually has during the breeding-season. The notes were 

 more like the notes of the Throstle than any other bird with which I could 

 compare them. — T. S. Tinker, Hepworth, Holmfirth, Dec. 26th., 1855. 



Occurrence of Rare Birds. — A Little Bittern was shot at Hilsea, Hants, in 

 1851; now in my collection. Hen Harrier shot at Horndean, Hants, also 

 in my collection. A fine specimen of the Great Black-backed Gull, which 

 I have in first year's plumage, was shot in the vicinity. — P. W. West, East 

 Cosham Lodge, near Portsmouth, Hants, January 24th., 1856. 



English Names for Butterflies and Motlis. — I should like to say a few 

 words on behalf of English names for Butterflies and Moths. The English 

 names would be much more easy, both to pronouce and to remember, than 

 the scientific ones by the unlearned student, and the public in general. If 

 we have English names for flowers, plants, and animals, why not for Butterflies 

 and Moths? Who calls the Daisy the Bellis perennis; then why should we 

 be obliged to call the Wood Argus Satyrus JEgeriaf Withjespect to Mr. 

 Stainton's remark that we should have to learn two names instead of one, I 

 reply we should almost as easily learn the two together as the scientific one 



