may fall in their way. Lepidoptera may be captured in 

 pill-boxes, and killed by means of a few drops of Chloroform. 

 Coleoptera and other orders should be put into a bottle in 

 which has been previously placed a small quantity of 

 bruised laurel leaves, the prussic acid contained in the 

 leaves not only very quickly killing the Insects, but also 

 preserving them fresh, and in a state for setting for a 

 considerable length of time. 



ORNITHOLOGICAL COLLECTION. 



It has been observed, with great truth " that you cannot 

 vie with the larger Museums in a general collection, but 

 you may excel them if you confine yourselves to a purely 

 local collection." Fully agreeing with this opinion, the 

 Hon. Curators, while enlarging the collection of British 

 Birds, purpose to do so, as much as possible, by means of 

 specimens obtained in Warwickshire or the contiguous 

 Counties. They offer these remarks in the hope that the 

 friends of the Institution will assist them in carrying out 

 their views, by donation of some of the species forming the 

 following list of desiderata: — 



Order 1. Accipitress, Linn. 



Egyptian Vulture NeopTiron Percnopterus (Linn.) 



Griffon Vulture Ctyps fulvus (QrxaeY) 



Eough-legged Buzzard ... Archibuteo Lagopus (Briin.) 



Spotted Eagle Aqnila «asi'ja (Grmel.) Mey 



Jer-falcon Falco Cfyrfalco,'L\xm. 



Bed-footed Falcon Tinnunaulus vespertinus ^mn!) 



Swallow-tailed Kite Nauclerus fereatus (Linn.) Vigors. 



G-oshawk Astur palumbarius (Linn.) Bechst 



Montagu's Harrier Circus cinerascens (Mont.) 



Hawk Owl Surnia ulula {Linn.) Honajp. 



SnowyOwl[Brit.8pecimen.] Nyctea nivea (Tlmnb.) 



Little Owl Aihene nocttia (Retz.) 



Great-earedOwl [female] ... Bulo maximus, Sibb. 



Tengmalm'a Owl Nyctale Tengmalmi (Gmel.) Strickl. 



