able to me. 
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Correspondence. 
We shall be glad to receive articles on any natural objects, the preference 
being always given to such as have a local interest. 
Notes on the popular 
names of, or traditions concerning, Animals or Plants, or on any subject con- 
nected with Natural History, will be welcome. 
Frora or Bucxs.—Having lately 
published a list of the plants at 
present recorded for the county of 
Buckingham, with a view to com- 
piling at some future period, a com- 
plete Flora of the county. I shall be 
glad to forward a copy to any one 
interested in the subject. I have 
enumerated 777 species and 22 
-yarieties ; additional localities for any 
of which, especially inthenorth ofthe 
county, will be thankfully received. 
Since the list was published, the 
following species have been added to 
it: Filago gallica, of which a speci- 
men exists in the British Museum, 
gathered near Iver, by Mr. Light- 
foot; Potamogeton perfoliatus and 
P. pusillus, observed near Great 
Marlow in 1864, by J. C. Melvill, 
Esq., of Trin. Coll., Cambridge. 
Any information or co-operation, 
however slight, will be valued. 
James Britren. 
High Wycombe. 
Yur Birps oF BERKSHIRE AND 
Buck nenamsHire.—Mr. Alexander 
Clark-Kennedy, a member of our 
Society, is about to issue, under the 
above title, ‘‘a description of the 
local distribution of all the British 
Birds that have ever (as far as the 
author knows) occurred in Berkshire 
and Buckinghamshire.” We trust 
that many of our readers and con- 
tributors will use their endeayours 
to render this work as complete as 
ossible. Mr. Alexander Clark- 
ennedy writes:—‘* My book will 
probably be published next March, 
so that, up to that time, any notes, 
however trivial, will be very accept- 
Notes on the occurrence 
of rare visitors in your neighbour- 
hood, original anecdotes of birds, the 
dates of the arrival and departure of 
our migrants, will likewise be grate~ 
fully received.”” It is hoped that 
this appeal may meet with a cordial 
response, as one great object of our 
Society is to bring together the 
observations of its members. The 
work will be illustrated by coloured 
photographs ; its price to subscribers 
being 6s. All communications 
should be addressed to Alexander 
Clark-Kennedy, Esq., Messrs. Ingram 
and Halton, Booksellers, Eton, by 
whom also subscribers’ names will be 
received: or to the care of the Hon. 
Sec. of the High Wycombe Natural 
History Society. 
THE WHEATEAR (Saaicola 
ananthe\.—In the October number 
of your Magazine, Mr. T. Marshall 
notes the occurrence of the Wheatear 
at High Wycombe in the month of 
March. I have observed the same 
here in about the middle of that 
month. I generally see a few pairs 
on the Down in March, and again in 
October; they remain only a few 
days, and then disappear. I re- 
member once seeing nearly forty 
birds of this species in a field near 
Salisbury, they frequented the same 
spot for about four days; afterwards 
not one was to be seen in the neigh- 
bourhood, This occurred in March, 
AnTHony 5. Brapsy. 
Moundsmere, Hants. 
Tur Hepernoc.—Mr. Augustine 
Gaviller writes: ‘I do not forget 
standing up in the vestry of 
Wycombe Church at one of our 
meetings there, over twenty years 
ago, to object to the payment, by 
the then Churehwardens, of a sum 
of. money for killing hedgehogs and 
sparrows: and that an old farmer 
then present took me to task for 
saying that hedgehogs were com- 
paratively harmless animals: he in- 
formed me that I was greatly 
mistaken, for they sweked cows, and 
thus spoilt them. I told him I 
would pay any man a handsome 
reward who could give me clear 
evidence of this, that their teeth 
