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OUTLINES OF PERIODICAL LITERATURE, 
RELATING TO THE NATURAL SCIENCES & PHILOSOPHY. 
(Continued from page 173 of the present volume.) 
The Magazine of Natural History, and Journal of Zoology, Botany, Minera- 
logy, Geology, and Meteorology, conducted by Edward Charlesworth, F.G.S. 
8vo, London, 1838. 
No. XXII, Ocroser, 1838—Dr. Drummond opens this number of the 
Magazine with the first of a series of notices of Irish Entozoa ; and, in this, 
he adopts Rudolphi’s nomenclature and classification. The doctor’s first 
subject is the Echinorhynchus acus, an intestinal worm, which is particularly 
frequent in fishes of the Cod tribe. He characterizes the animal, both ordi- 
nally and specifically; gives six figures, in illustration of its ova and other 
parts; defines its ascertained habitates ; and, with a train of ingenious expe- 
rimental descriptions of the economy and physiology of this parasite, he fur- 
nishes a truly valuable contribution to the Irish entozoology. From accu- 
rate and repeated observations with the micro8cope, he concludes that the 
echinorhynchous ova are expelled through a caudal pore: altogether, his 
article well merits the attention of naturalists. Mr. Skaife continues his 
essay on the Ornithology of Blackburn; and, under the order ScansorEs, 
four species—Picus viridis, the green woodpecker; P. major, the greater 
spotted woodpecker ; Yunx torquilla, the wryneck ; and Cuculus canorus, the 
cuckoo—are set down for north lancashireans. Among the GaLiin#, stand 
Lagopus britannicus, the red grouse; Perdrix cinerea, the common or grey 
partridge ; Coturnix dactylisonans, the common quail; Columba palumbus, 
the ring-dove; and Phasianus colchicus, the common pheasant : in foot-notes? 
Mr. S. adduces his reasons for preferring Britannicus as the specific 
term for red grouse; and he states that the golden pheasant has been 
naturalized in a gentleman’s preserves near Preston, where the breed 
multiplies with great rapidity. Thirty species of Gratux are then 
enumerated. ‘These are,—Charadrius plwvialis, the golden plover; C. 
morinellus, the dottrel; C. hiaticula, the ringed dottrel; Squatarola ci- 
nerea, the grey plover;. Vanellus cristatus, the lapwing ; Hzematopus 
ostralegus, the oyster-catcher ; Ardea cinerea, the common heron ; Botaurus 
stellaris, the bittern; Numenius arquata, the curlew; N. pheopus, the whim- 
brel; Scolopax rusticola, the woodcock ; 8. major, the solitary snipe ; 8S. galli- 
nago, the common snipe; S. gallinula, the jack snipe; Limosa rufa, the bar. 
tailed godwit; Tringa canutus, the knot ; 'T. subarquata, the pygmy curlew ; 
T. alpina, the dunlin or purre; T. minuta, the little stint ; Arenaria calidris, 
the sanderling ; Phalaropus /obatus, the grey phalarope ; Strepsilas interpres, 
the turnstone; Totanus calidris, the redshank ; 'T. ochropus, the green sand- 
piper; Rallus aqguaticus, the water rail; Crex pratensis, the land rail; C. por- 
zana, the spotted rail; Gallinula chloropus, the water hen; Fulica aéra, the 
coot. The birds of this order are distributed into four families—the Pressi- 
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