Southern (American J Elk. 55 



therefore, consider the appetite as an acquired one. I 

 have observed a goat very fond of eating snuff. Poi- 

 sonous plants, particularly some of the Solanea, seem 

 highly agreeable to several animals of the order Pecora. 



VIII. Tabula Amum alibi hiemantium tempore vernali 

 adventum commonstrans. Communicated to the 

 Editor, by Mr. William D. Peck, of Massa* 

 chusetts. 



WHILE I was at Kittery*, I kept a sort of re- 

 gister, in which, among other things, I noted the arrival 

 of our birds of passage. I have extracted some of those 

 notes, and thrown them into the form of a table. It may, 

 possibly, afford you some amusement. My absence 

 from home occasioned many blanks in the table, and the 

 same cause prevented my attempting to mark the disap- 

 pearance of the birds, in the autumn. Where the month 

 is not written, the figures express the day of the month 

 that is written next above them, in the same column. 



I believe all the birds in the table, except Anas cana- 

 densis, breed here. The Larus ridibundus frequents 

 the Piscataqua (a salt-water river) about four miles up, 

 and indicates the arrival of the Clupeas. 



Newbury, Massachusetts, March 4th, 

 1805. 



* In Maine. 



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