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causing them to exert their vocal powers. Thus, I have 

 known the sky-lark and yellow bunting sing with consider- 

 able spirit at the end of November. I have more than once 

 heard the lively notes of the common goldwing (or " gold- 

 fincli*") on Dec. 21.; and those of the hedge coalhood (or 

 " bu\Jinch") in the middle of November. The ivy wren and 

 robin redbreast will sing throughout the winter in fine 

 weather ; and the song of the whin linnet, green grosbeak, 

 and various other choristers, may be heard considerably after 

 the period when the greater part of the feathered songsters 

 have become comparatively mute. I might fill pages with 

 facts and speculations on this interesting topic, but have 

 neither the time nor the space for enlarging on it in this 

 place. (Id.) 



Swan River Colony. — Our botanic garden here having been 

 given up, I have determined, with the assistance of my sons, 

 who are practical naturalists, to make collections of skins of 

 quadrupeds, birds, &c, insects of all descriptions, seeds, and 

 specimens of plants. Your inserting a notice to that effect in 

 the Magazine of Natural History would much oblige me. 

 Our flora here is of the most varied and beautiful description, 

 the plants at King George's Sound being almost all different 

 .from those at Swan River. Persons requiring specimens of 

 plants would be required to send paper to pack and dry them 

 in, at least until we can get a sufficient supply of that article 

 from London. To nurserymen who will favour us with any 

 orders for seeds or bulbs of Orchidea?, or other plants, we will 

 be particular to send only such as will repay them for their 

 trouble. Any orders addressed to James Drummond and 

 Sons, Swan River Colony, will be carefully attended to. — 

 James Drummond. Swan River, Dec. 1835. 



New Tringa, shot near Yarmouth. — " On May 24. a new 

 Trimm to this country was shot near Yarmouth, and is now 

 in the collection of J. D. Hoy, Esq., from whom I received 

 this information. The sex was noted at the time : it is the flat- 

 billed sandpiper (Tringa platyrhyncha of Temminck) ; it is 

 rather less than the dunlin, and appears intermediate between 

 that bird and the Tringa pusilla." 



There was also shot, during the past summer, a fine speci- 

 men of the rose-coloured pastor (Pastor roseus Tcmm.) at 

 Yarmouth, on some trees out of the North Gates. On Aug. 

 10. was shot, at Elvedon, near Thetford, a very beautiful spe- 

 cimen of thedusky sandpiper (Totanus fuscus Leislcr), or spotted 

 redshank of Bewick. It was mounted by J. Reynolds of this 

 town, and presented to the Norwich Museum by W. Newton, 

 Esq., on whose estate it was killed. — J. D. Salmon. Thetford, 

 Dec. 3. 1836. 



