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expected from such a rich botanical 

 locality. This, however, was due 

 to the advanced period of the sea- 

 son ; still some plants of interest 

 were found. At several spots on 

 the railway banks, from Ballypallady 

 to Antrim, were observed in profu- 

 sion the handsome flowers of the 

 field Scabious [Knautia arvensis), and 

 in a field near Eandalstown, the 

 smooth, round-headed poppy, or corn 

 rose (Papaver PJiceas), common in 

 England, but here one of our rare 

 species. In the park were found the 

 gypsy wort [Lycojnis Euroj^ceus), the 

 hemp agrimony (Eupatorium canna- 

 binum) and the yellow loose-strife 

 [Lysimachia vulgaris). Mitnulus lute us, 

 an American plant, now naturalised 

 in many parts of Britain, was also 

 found to have established itself on 

 the shores of Lough Neagh. The 

 party returned to Belfast by train, 

 leaving Antrim at 5-40 p.m. — John 

 Haktley, The Castle, Belfast. 



Variety of Turdus musicus, dc. — I 

 observed, on the 16th instant, a 

 perfectly white variety of Turdus 

 musicus. It was an immature bird, 

 and was killed at Aldeby, a village 

 three miles north-east of Beccles. 

 Two immature specimens of Sylvia 

 ruhecula were obtained on the 8 th 

 instant, at Ketteringham, the whole 

 surface of their plumage being white, 

 eyes pink. A variety of Ilirundo 



riparia was shot on the river at the 

 back of the New Mills, on the 11th 

 of August last ; the upper surface 

 of its wings and tail being of a very 

 pale ash-colour, the feathers of the 

 upper wing coverts edged with the 

 same. This was also an immature 

 specimen. — T. E. Gunn, Norwich, 

 September 19th, 1864. 



Birds Collected at CooMiam since 

 January, 1864. — Having lately no- 

 ticed remarks in the ** Naturalist " 

 about plants to be found about 

 Bisham, Mario w, &c., I think a few 

 remarks on the ornithology of the 

 neighbourhood may be acceptable 

 to some of the readers of the "Na- 

 turalist." There have not been so 

 many birds shot this year as is 

 usual in this place. Formosa, on 

 the banks of the Thames, opposite 

 Cliefden, the residence of the 

 Duchess of Sutherland, is a splendid 

 place for birds, and Mr. Briggs has 

 collected for Mrs. De Vitre about 

 270 specimens, among which may 

 be noticed Ardea stellaris, (Lin.,) 

 Colymhus arcticus, Falco subbuteo 

 (Lath,) Picus minor (Lin.,) Strix 

 brachyotus (Gmel.,) and Sylvia locus- 

 tella (Lath.) I my self have collected 

 Yunx torquilla (Lin.,) Certhia /ami' 

 liaris (Lin.,) Sitta Europ a (Lin.,) 

 Turdus torquatus (Lin.,) Strix fiam- 

 mea (Lin.,) Falco nisus (Lin.,) Falco 

 tinnunculus (Lin.,) Emberiza sclm- 

 nidus (Lin.,) Fringilla montifringilla 

 (Lin.,) F, coccothraustes (Lin.,) F. car- 



