4980 THE ZooLocist—J ULy, 1876. 
saw a large, rough maggot of this sort squeezed out of the back of a cow. 
An intelligent friend informs me, that the disease along the chines of _ 
calves, or rather the maggots that cause them, are called by the graziers in 
Cheshire worry brees, & a single one worry bree. No doubt they mean a 
breese, or breeze, the name for the gad-fly, or wstrus, the parent of these 
maggots, which lays it’s eggs along the backs of kine.” 
Again :— 
«“ You seem to wonder that Mr. Willughby should not be aware that the 
Fern-owl is a summer bird of passage. But you must remember that those 
excellent men, Willughby & Ray, wrote when the ornithology of England, 
& indeed the Nat: History was quite in it’s infancy. But their efforts were 
prodigious ; & indeed they were the Fathers of that delightful study in this 
kingdom. I have thoughts of sending a paper to the R. S. respecting the 
fern-owl; & seem to think that I can advance some particulars concerning 
that peculiar, migratory, nocturnal bird, that have never been noticed 
before. The rain of Octo" last was great, but of Nov? still more. The 
former month produced 6 in. 49 hund. but the latter upwards of 8 in.: 
five & 4 of which fell in one week, viz. from Noy. 13th to the 19th. both 
inclusive! You will, I hope, pardon my neglect, & write soon. O, that I 
had known you forty years ago! 
“T remain, with great esteem, 
«Yr. most humble servant, 
“Git. WHITE. 
« My tortoise was very backward this year in preparing his Hyberna- 
culum; & did not retire till towards the beginning of Decem™ The late 
reat snow hardly reached us, & was gone at once.” 
Again :— 
“When Mr. Townsend avers that the Nightingales at Valez sing the 
winter thro’, I should conclude that he took up that notion on meer report ; 
because I had a brother who lived 18 years at Gibraltar, & who has written 
an accurate Nat. Hist. of that rock, & it’s environs. Now he says, that 
Nightingales leave Andalusia as regularly towards autumn as other Summer 
birds of passage. A pair always breeds in the Govern*’*: garden at the 
Convent. This Hist. has never been published, & probably now never will, 
because the poor author has been dead some years. ‘There is in his journals 
such ocular demonstration of swallow emigration to, & from Barbary at 
Spring, and fall, as, I know, would delight you much. There is an Hirundo 
hiberna, that comes to Gibraltar in Oct™ & departs in March: & abounds 
in and about the Garrison the winter thro’.” 
But if we give way to our desire to quote from these letters, this 
notice would be incomplete without the whole of them; and we 
