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Art. V. Observations on the Preternatural Growth of the Incisor 

 Teethf occasionally observed in certain of the Mammalia rodentia. 

 By W. Farrar, Esq. M.D. 



Sir, 



There is at present deposited in the museum of the 

 Barnsley Literary and Philosophical Society, a stuffed wild 

 rabbit which is a fine example of this circumstance. As it 

 differs from all of those described by Mr. Jenyns, perhaps 

 the following notice of it may not be superfluous. 



The lower incisors and the left upper one (supposing the 

 rabbit facing you) are precisely of the same length, and mea- 

 sure If in.; the right upper one is only half the length of the 

 others, but appears to have been broken. The lower incisors 

 begin to divide about an inch from the gums, and are separated 

 at their summits one fourth of an inch ; the upper ones di- 

 verge considerably more ; the longest follows the direction of 

 the lips, and after completing three parts of an exact circle 

 reenters the gum. The broken one extends beyond the mouth; 

 the posterior incisors are also much elongated, measuring 

 three fourths of an inch. 



This specimen seems to corroborate Mr. Jenyns's argument, 

 that the disease may originate from other causes, as well as 

 from the injury or loss of any single incisor. In this instance, I 

 think it must be attributed to some derangement of the jaws, 

 by which the incisors have been thrown out of contact, as the 

 morbid growth evidently commenced in all the teeth at the 

 same time. I am. Sir, &c. 



Barnsley, June 2, IS29. W. Farrar. 



Art. VI. Supplement to the " Descriptive and Historical Notice 

 of British Snipes" in the Seventh Number of the Magazine of 

 Natural History. (Vol. II. p. 143.) In a Letter to the Conductor. 

 ByS. T. P. 



Sir, 

 Every admirer of natural history will agree with your cor- 

 respondent H. V. D. on the value of complete histories of 

 families of animals, and I venture to accept his invitation to 

 naturalists and sportsmen, being myself a little of both, to 

 communicate, through the medium of your excellent Magazine, 

 a short notice of two snipes, which, from their extreme rarity, 

 have not probably come under that gentleman's observation, 

 and which will, as far as I am acquainted, complete the enu- 

 meration of the British species of the genus ^Scolopax, as at 

 present constituted. 



