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membrane, and an intestine of moderate length, with very small coecal appendages. 

 The form of the -wings and tail shews that the flight must be powerful and sus- 

 tained, similar to that of the Redwing and the Fieldfare ; and the feet, although 

 fitted for hopping on the ground as well as for gliding among branches, are, per- 

 haps, better adapted for the latter purpose. 



Although the Golden Oriole has occurred in several counties in England, and 

 in a few instances in Ireland, no authentic case of its occurrence in Scotland has 

 been recorded, at least to my knowledge. The birds in the museum of the Uni- 

 versity of Edinburgh, mentioned by Mr. Selby as having furnished subjects for 

 his drawings, and as having been shot on the Pentland Hills, were brought from 

 France by the late Mr. Wilson, janitor to that university. 



REMINISCENCES OF THE RHINE; 



ORNITHOLOGICAL AND ENTOMOLOGICAL. 

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Cerambyx Textor. — With its long horns, scrambling and out-stretched legs, 

 large size, and dark-black colour, the uninitiated observer would start with disgust, 

 exclaiming, " what a frightful creature !" if an Entomologist exultingly presented 

 him with this fine insect. And so it is, to those who judge of these and 

 some other similar tenantry of the insect world, under the weight of early associa- 

 tions or prejudices : but to the Entomologist, its apparent deformities assume a 

 different aspect ; and in each limb, articulation, and joint, and specific character, 

 clearly and strongly developed as they are, he pronounces it to be one of the most 

 attractive specimens of insect perfection. With such feelings I welcomed the slow 

 march and dignified attitude of one of these fine Cerambyces emerging from the 

 sod on the side of a pathway near Aix-la-Chapelle. I secured him, as well as cir- 

 cumstances would permit, in folds of paper, but in the course of the following night 

 he escaped to undergo, doubtless, the melancholy fate of being disposed of like a 

 common Black Beetle by the thoughtless chambermaid, who might find him pe- 

 rambulating my bed-room floor next morning. 



Green Locust ( Gryllus viridissimaj. — I found only one specimen of this 

 conspicuous insect, on the stem of a Willow, near Strasbourg. I confined it in a 

 tin box with two or three other insects, one of which was a Carabris of some 

 size ; when, to my astonishment, on opening the box on the following day, I found 



