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the number of members to thirty-six. The institution is still in 
existence, its annual festivals being celebrated in May. Its mora- 
lity, also, has been reformed ; and no composition which treats of an 
unlawful passion is permitted to be recited.* 
CRITES. 
* Velly, Villaret et Garnier, Histoire de France, tom. viii, p. 139, &c. ; see 
also Caseneuve, Origine des Jeux Floréaux. This latter author, who main- 
tains that these institutions had their rise in Provence, adds, by way of satire 
on the Germans, to whom he had a great disiike, that “Jes Allemands, qui ont 
toujours étés les singes des gentillesses Francaises, en introduicirent chez eux la 
Sacon et la coutume.”—p. 46, &c. 
(To be continued ). 
SKETCHES OF EUROPEAN ORNITHOLOGY. 
GOULD’S “BIRDS OF EUROPE.” 
NINETEENTH PART. 
Pxate I. The White Wagtail,—Motacilla alba,—Bergeronette 
grise, F'r.,—Cutrettola cinerea, Jt..—Weisse Bachstelze, G.,—Zwik- 
staart, D. The true M. alba, of Linneus ; common in France and 
the European continent, Africa, and the high lands of India ; but un- 
known in Britain: and principally differing from the British species 
in the absence of the deep-black colouring on the back, by which the 
latter is characterized. Food: Flies, and other Insects and their 
larve ; Millipedes. Nest: formed in rocks, bridge-arches, towers, 
hollow trees. Eggs: 6, bluish-white, spotted with black. Female: 
white colour less pure,—black occipital mark less extensive, than in 
male. 
Pyare IL. Shoveller Duck,—Rhynchapsis—olim Anas—clypeata, 
—(A. rubens, Gmel.),—Canard Souchet, ou le Rouge, F’r.,—Ana- 
tra mestolone, Jt.,—Loffelente, G. The type of a new genus, insti- 
tuted, by Leach, on the peculiar configuration of the beak (/%yxos, the 
beak, emis, a shield) ; and thus characterized: Beak long, with base 
