78 Miscellaneous. 



fig. e. I do not find the ' binate series' of frustules, but I cannot 

 affirm that they do not exist : neither can I make out the ramifica- 

 tion of either. Agardh's ' nee facile definitur structura in specimine 

 exsiccato' is quite applicable to both. Agardh's plant is rather more 

 slender and of a greener brown." 



My su])position now seemed very probable, but a few days since I 

 was fully assured of its correctness on comparing my jilant with a 

 specimen of H. anglica in my friend Mr. Berkeley's herbarium, which 

 he received from M. Crouan of Brest, and which I presume was so 

 named by Agardh. — John Ralfs, Penzance. 



JUNCUS DIFFUSUS, HOPPE, AND DROSERA OBOVATA, M. AND K. 



M. W. Sander, of Hamburgh, has just informed me that he has 

 received these two plants from Scotland, under other names. The 

 Juncus was gathered at " Kincardine "-shire (.''), in w^et ^ilaces ; it is 

 distinguished from /. rffusus by the shape of its capsule and the pith 

 being continuous. (See Koch, Sj'n. Fl. Germ. 7"27.) The Drosera 

 grew at Lochnacross in Dumfries- shire, and was named D. longifolia. 

 I may add, that all my Scottish specimens of D. anglica would pro- 

 bably be referred to D. obovata ; and that I do not consider it as a 

 distinct species, but only a variety of that plant.- — C. C. B. 



white's thrush. 

 To the Editors of the Annals of Natural History. 

 Gentlemen, 

 Will you oblige me by noticing in the next number of the 'Annals' 

 the occurrence in this island of White's Thrush, Turdus Whitei} 

 This very rare bird was obtained about ten days since, in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Bandon, co. Cork, by R. L. AUman, Esq., and is now in 

 my possession. It agrees in every respect with Yarrell's description 

 of the thrush shot by Lord Malmesbury in Hampshire, and is pecu- 

 liarly interesting when we recollect that the present is the first re- 

 corded instance of the occurrence of Turdus Whitei in Ireland ; and 

 that unless we suppose the thrush in the collection of Mr. Bigge, 

 which Yarrell contrasts with the Earl of Malmesbury's bird, to be 

 of the same species with the latter, his lordship's specimen is the 

 only one which has hitherto been noticed as occurring in any part 

 of the British Islands. 



Very faithfully yours, 

 Dublin, 6 Grattan Street, Dec* 15, 1842. Geo. Jas. Allman. 



FOSSIL MAMMALIA. 



Mr. Blyth, Curator to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, in his report 

 of presents received by the Society, states that he has been so for- 

 tunate as to discover, among the numerous valuable relics from the 

 Sivalik ranges, which were presented to the Society by Col. Colvin, 

 part of the head and bony cores of the horns of a large species of 

 Ovis, nearly allied to, if not absolutely identical with, the 0. Amman 

 of Siberia ; and a corresponding portion of a true Ibex, to all ajipear- 

 ance identical with the species (Capra Sakeen, nobis,) which still 

 inhabits the loftiest Himalayan crags. It is unnecessary to dwell 



