32 Mr. H. E. Strickland's Notes on Mr. Blyth's 



Cenomyce caspititia. Not common. 



sparassa. Common. 



alcicornis. 1 I join these two together, as I confess my- 



endivicrfolia. J self unable to distinguish them ; the tufts 



of hair at the edges of the frond (the main ditFerence depended on) 

 appear to me not sufficient to keep them distinct. In a specimen 

 of alcicornis, which I have from the Unio Itineraria of Strasbourg, 

 and which, according to the character of the plant, ought to have 

 marginal tufts of hairs, I can distinguish none. If the true al- 

 cicornis always has tufts of hairs, I have never gathered it. The 

 plant without them, and which I suppose therefore would be called 

 endivicE/olia, is not common about Barmouth, though occasionally 

 met with. It grows in great beauty upon the rocks at Lydstep in 

 Pembrokeshire, but rare in fruit. 



__— — cervicornis. I never met with this in so beautiful a state 



as at Llyn Howel. 



pyxidata. Common. 



verticillata. Scarce : rocks to the south of Gwastad- 



annos. 



■ fimhriata. Not common. 



radiata. Rhinog Fach. 



cornuta. 



gracilis. 



jiliformis. 



deformis. Not common. 



coccifera. 



helUdiflora. Moel Diffws. 



Pycnothelia papillaria. Scarce: GelliRhud. 



yi, Notes on Mr. Blyth's List of Birds from the vicinity of 



Calcutta. By H. E. Strickland, M.A. 



The ' Annals of Natural History' have seldom contained orni- 

 thological papers of greater value than that by Mr. E. Blyth in the 

 Nos. for August and September of the present year. While ob- 

 servations on the habits of the commonest British birds have been 

 published and republished till the subject is quite exhausted, we 

 are wholly ignorant of the food, habits, nidification and anatomy 

 of the majority of foreign species. The zoological treasures of 

 India have been till within the last ten years most unaccountably 

 neo-lected, and in many cases our knowledge on the subject was 

 worse than none, it was incomplete and inaccurate. A better 

 day has now dawned ; British officers in India have discovered 

 that by studying the wonders of tropical nature they may get 

 throu«-h the day more pleasantly than by indulging in indolence, 

 and consequently the natural history of that country ^^^ll ere long 

 be as thoroughly investigated as that of the British Isles. 



The appointment of a well-qualified zoologist like Mr. Blyth, 



