12)" APPENDIX: NOS, XII.—XIII. 
‘Xe 
Note ON THE OcCURRENCE OF THE BLACK SWAN IN BRITAIN. 
[‘ Zoologist,’ iv. (1846) p. 1554. ] 
I was reminded by your note on the Black Swan (Zool. 1501) of 
some passages I copied from Mr. Colquhoun’s ‘The Moor and the 
Loch,’ p. 41, note: ‘ Wild geese, bernacle, brent geese, &c. seldom 
pitch upon the Highland Lochs, the former only for a short time to 
rest. Last winter (1841) some flocks of wild geese, the common 
gray lag, appeared on Loch Lomond during the first storm, * * * *. 
It is a curious fact that there were fewer hoopers last winter (1841) 
than in many of far less severity. During the severe winter of 
1837-38 not one wild goose of any description was seen although 
there were numbers of the common wild swan and a few of the 
black species, one of which was shot.” 
Beeston, near Nottingham, 
October 3rd, 1846. 
eT: 
On Reptives &c., NEAR Bonn. 
[‘ Zoologist,’ v. (1847) pp. 1602-1604. ] 
One beautiful day last July [1846], we took a drive to the alum- 
works of Friesdorf; as we ascended the hill, a melodious croaking was 
heard on every side; the coachman said it was Wood-Pigeons, but 
we made up our minds it must be Tree-Frogs*; we searched for them 
in vain, wherever we went the noise seemed to surround us, but never 
very close; it excited pleasing ideas of enchanted groves. I am not 
familiar with the coomg of the Stock-Dove, but these voices seemed 
too small, too numerous, and too close at hand for that. We collected 
specimens of the buried forest in every stage, from perfect wood to 
perfect coal, but were disappointed in not meeting with any of the 
strata in which were found the fossil Frogs. I was much surprised, 
however, to find so goodly a collection of living Batrachians in the ~ 
pools about—chiefly small specimens, as though they were bred 
there—first, I recognised the Natter-jack in plenty ; then I caught 
a kind of Toad *, which in its brilliant orange-mottled belly, reminded 
me of the Warty Newt, it also resembled it in its strong pungent 
smell when handled; it was blacker than the Common Toad on the 
back, and had larger feet, which, the hind as well as the fore, it 
almost inverted over its back, in resigning itself to its fate, and to a 
much greater degree than the Common ‘load does, which only puts 
* | Hyla arborea.—Ep. | * | Bombinator igneus.—Ep. } 
