Celestial Phenome7ia from April 1. to July 1. 18S7. 389 



Pi^oceedings of the Werner ian Natural History Society. 

 (Continued from p. 191.) 



18S6, Dec. 16. — X HE Secretary read Mr Audubon's ac- 

 count of the habits of the Vuhur Aura, or Turkey-Buzzard, 

 in which he exploded the opinion generally entertained of its 

 extraordinary power of smelling. (See preceding Number of 

 this Journal, p. 172 — 184.) Mr Audubon being present, af- 

 terwards shewed to the Society his mode of fixing recently kil- 

 led birds in various attitudes, against a board marked with 

 squares or division lines, corresponding to similar lines pencilled 

 on the sheet of paper on which the drawing is to be made. 



A specimen of the Sword-fish, Xiphias Gladius, seven feet 

 in length, found in the Firth of Forth, and transmitted by Mr 

 Slight, assistant to Robert Stevenson, Esq. civil engineer, was 



JANUARY — MARCH 1827. 



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