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ever heard of in the East Riding. I thought it was a Blackbird when it 

 first got up, as it flew from the brook towards a field. — F. 0. Morris, 

 Nunburnholme Eectory, June 2nd., 1856. 



On the 30th. of May there was a small Bat flying in the garden of 

 the Rectory in broad sunlight. It was coursing round the trees, evidently 

 hawking for insects, and continued for a short time. — F. O. Morris. 



In a box fixed on a post, near the gardens at Thorpe Hall, near 

 Bridlington, letters and newspapers are deposited through a slit, for the 

 greater convenience of the foot messenger as he passes each way daily 

 between Bridlington, the post town, and the receiving house at Thwing. 

 The lid is secured by a lock and key, and although the box is opened 

 four times every day in the week except Sunday, yet a pair of these tiny 

 pert little birds, provincially called Billy-biters, (Blue Titmouse,) have made 

 the slit a means of ingress and egress, and actually built a nest within, 

 in which the female has already begun to lay her eggs. — Yorkshire Gazette, 

 May 17th., 1856. 



Capture of Carabus intricatus in Devonshire. — A fine specimen of that 

 extremely rare beetle, Carabus intricatus, was taken on the 18th. of the 

 present month, in the neighbourhood of Plymouth, by Mrs. Hayward, of 

 Devonport. It was kept alive for twenty-four hours, and has since been 

 beautifully mounted on cardboard. — John Gatcombe, Wyndham Place, Ply- 

 mouth, June 23rd., 1856. 



The Natural History of Ireland, in Four Volumes. — Vol. IV. — Mammalia, 

 Beptiles, and Fishes; also Invertehrata. By the late William Thompson, 

 Esq., President of the Natural History and Philosophical Society of Bel- 

 fast; Corresponding Member of the Natural History Society of Boston, 

 U.S.; of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, etc. London: 

 H. G. BoHN, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856, 



To those who are acquainted with my "History of British Birds," it 

 will be unnecessary to state how high a value I have repeatedly had occasion 

 to place on the volume of the work on the Ornithology of Ireland, by the 

 same author. To all others let me here say that the whole work from 

 first to last is of the very highest character and use. It is simply impos- 

 sible for the Natural History of any individual country to be executed in 

 a more thoroughly complete and admirable manner. The only drawback 

 is that the term "late" has to be applied to the name of the gifted and 

 painstaking author. 



A highly-finished engraving, as a frontispiece, which appeai-s to have 



