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and was kept for a time alive, bat motionless and indifferent to 

 surrounding objects, and died after a few days. This specimen 

 (which is in the worst possible condition) is preserved at Iniola, 

 near Bologna, in the collection of a certain Signor Liverani. I 

 noticed that in it the yellow on the throat and on the sides of 

 the head is very vivid, that the fore part of the neck and the 

 breast are not spotted, and that the filaments of the wings and 

 tail are not very long, 



I remain, Sir, &c., 



Dr. Thomas Salvadori. 



The Rectory, Breadsall, near Derby, 

 23rd January 1864. 



Sir, — A very tine adult male of "Bewick's Swan'' [Cygnus 

 bewickii) was shot, on the 18th inst., on the Trent, at Newton- 

 Folney, near Burton-on-Trent, by G. A. Smallwood, Esq., of the 

 Rock, Newton-Folney. When killed, it was in company with a 

 pair of Trumpeter Swans. The specimen has been most ad- 

 mirably preserved by Mr. John Cook, bird-stuffer, Market-place, 

 Derby, in whose shop I saw it yesterday. 



I am, yours faithfully, 

 H. Harpur Crewe. 



The following extracts are from a letter of Mr. Tristram, dated 

 Jericho, 4th January 1861: — 



"We have now been five weeks in Palestine, and our first 

 month's work, which we did not expect to be very successful or 

 interesting, has been such as to satisfy our moderate antici- 

 pations. It has been spent on the road between Beyrout and 

 Jerusalem, and most of it in rainy and often bitterly cold 

 weather. 



"The last few days we have spent in the Jordan-valley. Here 

 we have entered upon a new field, which has surpassed our most 

 sanguine hopes in abundance, if not in variety. In Raptores we 

 have seen everything, and killed nothing. This result we attri- 

 bute to the clearness of the atmosphere, which deceives us and 

 leads us to fire at too great a distance, and, perhaps, also has 

 an elevating effect upon the shot (!). The Common Buzzard, 

 Marsh- Harrier, and Kestrel are the only captures. 



