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breeds, now extinct or rare, both of quadrupeds ‘and birds, ‘were still 
common. ‘The fox, whose life is, in many counties, held “almost as 
sacred as that of a human being, was considered as a mere nuisance, 
Oliver St. John told the Long Parliament that Strafford was to be 
regarded, not as a stag or hare, to whom sume law was to be given, 
but as a fox, who was to be snared by any means, and knocked on 
the head without pity. This illustration would be by no means a 
happy one if addressed to country gentlemen of our time: but in 
St. John’s days there were not seldom great massacres of foxes to 
which the peasantry thronged with all the dogs that could be mus. 
tered: traps were set ; nets were spread; no quarter was given; and to 
shoot a female with cub was considered as a feat which merited the 
gratitude of the neighbourhood. ‘The red deer were then as common 
in Gloucestershire and Hampshire as they are now among the Gram- — 
pian hills. On one occasion Queen Anne, on her way to Portsmouth, 
saw a herd of no less than 500. The wild bull with his white mane 
was still to be found wandering in a few of the southern forests: The 
badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the side of every hill 
where the copsewood grew thick. The wild cats were frequently 
heard by night wailing round the lodges of the rangers of Whittle- 
bury and Needwood. The yellow-breasted martin was still pursued 
in Cranbourne Chase for his fur, reputed inferior only to that of the 
sable. Fen eagles, measuring more than 9 feet between the extre- 
mities of the wings, preyed on fish along the coast of Norfolk. On 
all the downs, from the British Channel to Yorkshire, huge bustards 
strayed in troops of fifty or sixty, and were often hunted with grey- 
hounds. The marshes of Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire were 
covered during some months of every year by immense clouds of 
cranes. Some of these races the progress of cultivation has extir- 
pated. Of others the numbers are so much diminished that men 
crowd to gaze at a specimen as at a Bengal tiger or a Polar bear,.”’-— 
From Macaulay’s History of England. 
On THALIELLA, A NEW GENUS OF CIRRIPEDES ALLIED TO SCALPELLUM. 
By J. E. Gray, Esa., F.R.S. ere: 
THALIELLA. 
Valves 11 ; opercular valves subtriangular ; dorsal elongate, curved; 
lower dorsal and anterior compressed, with two pairs of lateral valves 
in the middle of the body above the base. Peduncle with rings of 
imbricate horny scales. ; 
This genus chiefly differs from Scalpellum in the front and hinder 
lateral pair of valves being each united into a single compressed valve, 
and in having no middle basal lateral valve. 
This genus was shown to me by Mr. J. S. Bowerbank, who re- 
ceived it from Algoa Bay attached to some species of Plumaria. . 
THALIELLA ORNATA. 
Pale horn-coloured, varied with red spots, or with a single red band 
on each side; valves horny, subpellucid, radiately striated. 
“On Plumaria, Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope. Presented to the 
British Museum by J. S. Bowerbank, Esq. 
