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was warmly applauded ; at its conclusion, conversation on the subject took 

 place, and the sympathy of the meeting with " our feathered friends " was 

 strongly expressed. A pnper by Mr. Ullyett, on '"^The Ichthyosaurus " 

 followed, which will be found at page 148 of the present number. A long 

 and spirited discussion followed the reading of this papsr, the Pitiident 

 expressing his opinion that the vertebrae from Wheatley were those of the 

 Plesiosauros. In ihe course of the discussion the President pointed out the 

 difference between the Pleiosauros and Ichthyosauros ; that the one had 

 no sockets in which the teeth were^inserted, hut that the former had a 

 prolongation of tooth. This was illustrated by the cast of a large Pleio- 

 saurian tooth in the British Museum: this gigantic tooth is a foot in length 

 and the fang by whiih it was embedded in the jaw can be distinctly seen 

 The Presidenr exhibited some very beautiful and perfect remains of the 

 Bos primogenius, from some ancient beds of river drift, lately discovered 

 and sent to him from Bristol; there was an almost perfect skull and very 

 fine horn cores ; the horn cores of another specimen ; and the pelvic 

 bones. On the table there were a large humerus of Plesiosauros from the 

 Kimmeridge clay, AVeymouth ; and a slab containing the paddle and riba 

 of Jclithyosaurus communis from the Lias, Lyme Regis. &c., &o. 



%iik%f iS>mt$\)nMm, &c 



Late Swallows,&c.— On Nov. 

 30, Mr. Tomlinson, under-gar- 

 dener to Lord Carington at the 

 Abbey C4ardens, brought mc a live 

 swallow which he had caught in 

 the packing house. The bird was 

 very lively and well-fed. I let it 

 go ia ray hay loft, whcr? it flew 

 about several times and finally 

 settled on a rafter under the tiles. 

 I iiave not b.ocn it since, but 

 thought it would iutert-,st the 

 readers of our magazine to know 

 how late a swallow had been seen 

 in these parts. Owing to the 

 severity of the weather, I have 

 noticed this rear (ISri'.l) immense 

 flocks of field-fares and redwings 



feeding upon the haws in the 

 hedges ; and never during the last 

 15 years have I seen such large 

 flocks of those birds. — E. M. Bow- 

 stead, M.D. 



" On Saturday, Nov. 20, a very 

 fine day for November, a house 

 martin vr.i3 seen flying about on 

 the Thames, near the Brocas, Eton. 

 It wns Eikimmiar;' the watci"; and 

 upparently as strong on the wing 

 as in thfl bright days of summer. — 

 R.S."— 7')(Yrf, Nov. 30 The same 

 paper for Nov. 2;! records the 

 notice of a swallow at Windsor 

 Castle on the ICth, and of a swift 

 at Henley on the llth, of that 

 month. 



