The Zoologist — June, 1871. 2625 



All the grand Forces liold revel in thee, 



Proud of the warrant they hold to be free, 



Yet prouder to move in marvellous shrine, 



Giving assurance of Mind's magic sign, 



Bent to win all that is noble, divine. 



Time shall, in splendour, thy powers reveal, 



Virtue and Beauty, each, setting its seal. 



Under thy hand, shall a Heaven appear, 



Earth, for thy glory, become fitter sphere."— P. 52. 



I should probably have ventured on criticising certain words or 

 expressions iu Mr. Merrin's poem that appear new to the English 

 language, but I am still smarting under a severe castigation I have 

 lately received for a similar ofFence, and therefore only cite, without 

 condemning, a few of the peculiarities to which I allude : " by 

 mage dismissed," « dreams of Yon-life," " gairish ray," " rise up, in 

 startle," all at p. 3 : "storm-fiend's blare," at p. 14; "myriad 

 Cretacae," at p. 20; "Aurial vapour, undensed into fire, enlucent 

 and gasial"; *«a deep ocean of sheen," both at p. 22; "amid the 

 fumy storm," at p. 32 ; "a world new-sainted," at p. 34. " In their 

 algid armour bound," at p. 35 ; " through the fusy mass," and 

 " numberless form," both at p. 43 ; " the toriidal heat," " Now food, 

 and now frass," both at p. 44; "he bared his rutilant breast," at 

 p. 45. I think it will be admitted that my coinage of such words 

 as "differentiate" sinks into insignificance before such novelties as 

 these. 



Edward Newman. 



PFild Birds to be found in the London Markets. 

 By John Gatcombe, Esq. 



As you have kindly inserted my account of the wild birds I met 

 with in the Continental markets, I venture to send you a list of 

 those I have from time to time bought or observed in Leadenhall 

 and Newgate Markets, more especially as I think many ornitholo- 

 gists are not fully aware of the rarities that might be picked up on 

 visiting those places. 



Peregrine falcon, merlin, kestrel, sparrowhawk ; common and 

 roughlegged buzzards (the stomach of the latter containing the 

 remains of several moles); marsh and hen harriers; longeared 

 shorteared, white and tawny owls; dipper, missel thrush, fieldfare 



