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Walton Park is a zoological garden upon the most perfect 

 plan, because the various tribes which resort there may be 

 seen as such objects should be, truly wild (not in the general 

 acceptation of the term), but in a state of ease and freedom, 

 and apparent consciousness of security, following their differ- 

 ent avocations without alarm, which confidence is acquired by 

 the constant serenity and peacefulness of the region. No guns 

 are ever allowed to be fired, nor any nests plundered, so that 

 by such regulations the real habits of animals are seen in as 

 it were their state of primaeval simplicity, without the ac- 

 quired fears and misgivings engendered by man's relentless 

 persecution and cruelty ; and strange to say, birds of reputed 

 rapacious characters and habits, and those which are timid 

 and harmless, building in the same tree. In 1833 a Wood- 

 Pigeon built its nest four feet below that of a Magpie, and 

 both lived in peace, and hatched their eggs, and reared their 

 young. Here may be seen the motionless Heron waiting 

 patiently for his meal ; the Cormorant perched within a few 

 yards of the drawing-room window eyeing the finny tribes in 

 the lake ; whole companies of Coots grazing on the lawn and 

 cropping grass like geese, or flocks of Widgeon, Mallard, 

 Teal, Pintail, &c. sailing on the smooth surface of the lake, 

 which is now and then agitated by the diving of a Dabchick 

 or the flutter of a Waterhen. While passing through Walton 

 Park the visitor not only observes ornithological specimens 

 alive and in motion, but also full-sized pheasants made of wood 

 perched upon the upper branches of the trees, for the sole pur- 

 pose of trying the skill, and still more the patience, of a class 

 of persons who have a singular propensity for killing their 

 neighbour's game on moonlight nights. 



XLVIII. — Appendix to Mr. Shuckard's Monograph of the 

 Dorylidae, containing a Description of two new Species of 

 Labidus. 

 Since the publication of the concluding portion of my Monograph 

 Mr. Swainson has kindly furnished me from his Cabinet with two 

 new species of the genus Labidus, captured by himself in the Brazils. 

 The first would in size precede the L. Halidaii, and come into the 

 same section with it, viz. 



