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Gloucestershire, and in Monmouthshire. Near Broomsherrow, where 

 aome very curious old Limes of the broad-leaved kind present them- 

 selves, is a place called Linteredge, no doubt from the Linden trees 

 there, which is in fact the more common and proper appellation ; and 

 a parish called Linwood in Lincolnshire, where the small-leaved Lin- 

 den is said to grow, is very likely derived from a similar fact. The 

 paper was accompanied by six splendid drawings of old Limes ob- 

 served in different places (from the pencil of Mr. Lees) who also 

 sent the Society numerous species of the Tilia. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBJTION OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



Mr. Fellows, who has recently published a very interesting Journal 

 of a tour he made last year in Asia Minor*, has communicated to us 

 a list of the birds which he observed and shot during his tour, and a 

 short notice of those which occur in the British Islands may not be 

 unacceptable as an addition to our information regarding their geo- 

 graphical range. 



Neophron percnopterus , Sw. Falco rufipes, Bechst. The most 

 common Hawk in Asia Minor, building its nest under the roofs and 

 sometimes even in the interior of houses. — Accipiter fringillariuSy 

 Will. Killed on the Highlands near Altius Tash. — Noctua passerina, 

 Selbyf. Shot at Ephesus in the Theatre, found commonly through 

 Asia Minor and Greece. — Lanius rufus, L. Collurio, Saxicola (Enanthe, 

 Sturnus vulgaris, Upupa Epops, — Sitta europea. The name in Turk- 

 ish signifies " Nut-Borer." — Cuculus canorus. Seen on the mountains 

 during the month of April and at no other time. — Coracias garrula. 

 Common throughout the south and west parts of the country where- 

 ever the Magpie was not found, and never seen in the same district 

 with that bird : falls through the air like a Tumbler Pigeon. — Me- 

 rops Apiaster. Found in the south and west parts of the county ; 

 they utter a rich warbling ** Chirp" when on the wing and generally 

 fly rapidly and high in the air ; they are often found among the tur- 

 pentine firs, from which bees collect much honey, and are sometimes 

 attracted to the valleys by the numerous apiaries of the peasantry. — 



* This work has excited considerable attention from the discovery by Mr. 

 Fellows of the extensive remains of many Greek towns, highly interesting 

 to the antiquarian and the scholar. 



t N. passerina of Selby, and most modern ornithologists, is Ot. nudipes, 

 Nilsson, easily distinguished from the only British bird with which it can be 

 confounded, the Noctua Tengmalmi, Selby, by its bare or thinly plumed 

 toes. The true N. passerina has not yet been added to the Britibh list. — Ed. 



