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7. Alha, Oliv. Enc. Meth. viii. 179. Wady Genneh. Inhabits 

 Bagdad. 



Fam. Termetid^. — Gen. Eutermes, Hagen. 



8. Lateralis. Termes lateralis, Walk. Cat. Neur. iii. 532. Mount 

 Sinai. Inhabits also Sierra Leone. 



Fam. Ephemerid^. — Gen. Clokon, Leach. 



9. Diptera, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 907. Cairo. 



F. Walker. 



Errata.— Zoo\. S. S. 2380, /or Siticus read Sitiens. 



Fam. Bradypoeid^. — Genus Hetrodes, Fischer. 

 Hetrodes horridus, Klug. Gezecb Pyramids. 



This species was omitted in the List of Orthoptera collected hy J. K. Lord, Esq. — 

 —F. Walker. 



Ornithologij of Scilly Islands in October. — The following extract from my nephew's 

 letter to me from Scilly, where he has been staying for snipe shooting, may be 

 acceptable. Very few snipes, and no woodcocks, have as yet appeared, but a large 

 migration of jack snipes enabled him to fill his bag with about fifty in a week: — 

 "These non-productive westerly gales are enough to spoil the temper of any shooting 

 naturalist: nothing has come, and the few snipes remaining from our shooting are 

 gone as well as other things. The coast-guard men say a great white heron has 

 frequented Hedge Rock for some time, but they have not seen it for a fortnight. 

 What a capture this would have been! Hedge Rock is a great resort of herons: 

 there were several there to-day ; and there was a beautiful flock of curlews,— I should 

 say two hundred or three hundred birds,— which a tiercel was in pursuit of, though he 

 did not strike one. I do not yet know how a peregrine works a bird that falls into the 

 ^■ater— whether he picks him off the sea or not. The falcon to-day contented himself 

 with breaking up the flock of curlews into several parties, which displayed their 

 powers of flight to great advantage, shooting about more like rooks in a gale of wind 

 than anything else. The herons sal still on the rock, probably knowing that the pere- 

 grine will not strike a sitting bird. I never saw such a quantity of greenfinches as 

 there are all over the islands: two barrels into a flock of some hundreds yesterday 

 produced thirty-three, and there were a lot on St. Martin's to-day. Whence comes 

 this quasi-congress of Tringidte and Fringillidse? Nothing like it has occurred 

 before. Since the 1st of September, 1870, we have had— TVin^ra and Tolani : common 

 sandpiper (several), green sandpiper (I), curlew sandpiper (flocks), knots (several), 

 pecloral sandpiper (5), purple sandpiper, Scbinz's stint (1), buft'breasted stint (I), 

 common redshank (several), spotted redshank (I), greenshanks (thirty or more in a 

 flock). Godwils: bartailed (12), blacktailed (1). Fringillce : sparrows (thousands), 

 greenfinch (large flock>), chaffinch (usual numbers,), linnets (more than usual), gold- 

 finches (ditto)."— £'rfward Hearle Rodd; Penzance, November 1, 1870. 



Autumn Migration at Scilhj.—Godmls, redshanks and greenshanks and a few 

 gray plovers were observed on Sampson Isle, Scilly, ibis week, and the gray phalaropes 

 extended to the isles in common with the Cornish coasts. The usual migratory move- 

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