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With regard to Mr. Doublebay's list we have little to say, but it has given us 

 an opportunity of stating our views relative to a subject hitherto undeservedly 

 neglected in this country. We conclude our readers are acquainted with Mr. 

 Jenyns's work, and if so, they are in possession of the nomenclature of Double- 

 day. It is far otherwise with the catalogue of Mr. C. T. Wood. Though it 

 contains many blemishes, yet the names — supplied in English, French, German, 

 and Latin — have been collected with much care, and, generally, with success. 

 None of the catalogues hitherto published are intended to impart any idea of 

 classification, further than as regards the arrangement of genera and species, and 

 in that they are all equally defective. Defective in our opinion they undoubtedly 

 are, but we have no hesitation in recommending Mr. C. T. Wood's Ornithological 

 Guide — notwithstanding the absurd orthography — as by far the best. 



We should be very glad if Mr. C. T. Wood, or any one competent to the task, 

 would undertake to publish a similar catalogue of the birds of Europe; and 

 nothing would be more acceptable to the student than a good and carefully com- 

 piled list of all the known species. — We have, however, occupied more space than 

 we can well spare, on this subject, and must now conclude. 



CHAPTER OF MISCELLANIES. 



ZOOLOGY. 



Antipathy of Cats to Water. — It is astonishing what an antipathy Cats 

 have to water. Rather an extraordinary instance of this aversion has recently 

 been related to me by a person now living in this town. When a boy he was 

 ordered by his master to carry a Cat that had committed some theft, to the Place 

 Farm (which was anciently the Nunnery), and there to leave her. For this 

 purpose he put poor puss into a bag, and forth-with proceeded to carry the 

 sentence into execution : instead of this, however, as he passed over the bridge 

 on his way, he was induced by the unfortunate Cat — who, not relishing her con- 

 finement, had kept up an incessant squalling — to torn her out of the bag over the 

 side of the bridge into the river, where he left her to her fate. A person on pas- 

 sing under the bridge some considerable time afterwards (not less than three 

 weeks ; my informant says a month), found the Cat alive, sitting isolated upon a 

 post under the bridge, but almost reduced to a skeleton. He relieved her from 

 her perilous situation, and she ultimately recovered her health. This circum- 

 stance is the more remarkable, as there was nothing except the water that 

 prevented her from leaving her forlorn situation ; yet so great was the dread of 



