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taken up with the grass. I cannot say whether this is a correct explana- 

 tion, hut if it is, it would seem to point to the advantage of giving stall- 

 fed animals a little fine sand or gritty matter of some kind occasionally, 

 with food that is free from it, to maintain the efficient grinding quality 

 of the teeth. Perhaps some of your readers may have observed horses 

 under similar circumstances, and can say whether this, to me, peculiar 

 conduct, has been noticed before." — A. F. O. 



Birds at Leadenhall Makket, (December, 1879.) — The following list 

 of birds which I observed in Leadenhall Market about the middle of this 

 month may perhaps be of some interest, although of course the localities 

 in which they were killed cannot be given — no doubt the greater number 

 were foreign. The first on the list, and in fact a good many others, can 

 hardly be called good eating : — Kestrel, (one,) Blackbirds, Missel and Song 

 Thrushes, Redwings and Fieldfares, Larks in thousands, Books, two 

 Jays, large numbers of Starlings, very many Capercailzies, a few Bed 

 Grouse, Common and Bed-legged Partridges, and a great number of 

 Pinnated Grouse and Blackcocks ; thousands of Snipe, also a few 

 " Jacks," Woodcocks in large numbers, Dunlins, Bedshanks and Stints, 

 Water Bails, a dozen or more ; Golden and Grey Plovers, and a good 

 many Lapwings ; Curlews and Bar-tailed Godwits, one pure white 

 Pheasant, and of course countless numbers of ordinary ones. About a 

 dozen Herons, Moorhens, and one Coot. The duck family was well repre- 

 sented. Besides very large numbers of the ordinary Wild Ducks, 

 Wigeons, Pochards, and Golden Eyes, I noticed a few Teal, two Pintails; 

 and a fine male Shoveller, which I was informed was killed at Tralee, 

 Ireland. There were a good many Sheldrakes and Brent Geese, and two 

 Bewick's Swans. I saw several little Grebes, and one immature Great 

 Northern Diver ; also a few Kittiwake, Common and Herring Gulls. 

 Amongst the live birds were a Kite, half a dozen Kestrels, a Baven, a 

 Book, and one or two Common and Kittiwake Gulls. — 0. V. Aplis, 

 Bodicote, Oxon. 



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University Intelligence. — We are glad to notice that our corres- 

 pondent, Mr. F. F. Grensted, of University College, Oxford, has gained a 

 First-class in the Final School of Natural Science, at Oxford. 



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