484 OBSERVATIONS. 



See Pennant's Scotland, i. p. 11. In Greece, the cuclcoo migrates 

 with the turtle-Rooks, thence they call him trigono-kracti, or turtle- 

 leader. 



P. 143. The motion of the tortoise's legs being, as Mr. White 

 remarks, ridiculously slow, is taken notice of in Homer's hymn to 

 Hermes, v. 28. 



', epiOt']\ea iroi)]v 

 ifoerlv fiaivovaa. 



" Feeding far off from man, the flowery herb, 

 Slow-moving with his feet." 



P. 148. Mr. White has observed, that the owl returns to its 

 young with food once in fiv & minutes. Mr. Montagu has observed, 

 that the wren returns once in two minutes, or upon an average 

 thirty-six times in an hour ; and this continued full sixteen hours in 

 a day, which if equally divided between eight young ones, each would 

 receive seventy-two feeds in the day, the whole amounting to five 

 hundred and seventy six. See Ornitholog. Diet. p. 35. To this, I 

 will add, that the swallow never fails to return to its nest at the 

 expiration of every second or third minute. 



P. 159. Mr. White says, that no wJieatears are taken to the 

 westward of Houghton bridge, on the river Arun ; it appears, how- 

 ever, that is not the case. See the note to Mrs. Charlotte Smith's 

 Poems, 1807, p. 168. 



P. 207. As our Saxon ancestors called the month of February 

 1 Sprout-Gale,' so the names of many other months were equally 

 significant ; viz. March, Stormy month ; May, Trimilki, the cows 

 then being milked three times a day ; June, dig and weed month ; 

 September, barley month, &c. 



P. 247. What Mr. White has remarked of the fishes of Japan 

 thriving in our climate, is true also of the plants ; the trees and 

 shrubs brought from the Japonese islands bearing our winters, and 

 growing freely : as for instance, that beautiful tree, the ' Gingko,' 

 now called by Dr. Smith, the Salisburia ; and the no less beautiful 

 and scarce * Sophora Japonica,' the finest specimens of which trees 

 now in England, are probably in the curious garden of John Orde, 

 Esq., at Fulham. Ae I am on this subject. I will mention that the 

 garden belonging to the palace of the Bishop of London at Fulham, 

 the earliest receptacle of scarce and foreign trees in" this country, is 

 now almost worn out. Not above twelve of the original trees could 



