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bird were gone. An idea struck him that she had re- 

 moved her eggs ; and he found her, before he left 

 the field, sitting under the hedge upon twenty-one 

 eggs, and she brought up nineteen birds. The 

 round of ploughing had occupied about twenty 

 minutes, in which time she (probably assisted by 

 the male bird) had removed the twenty-one eggs 

 to a distance of about forty yards." Here is an 

 anecdote of another species of biped : — " It is well 

 known that His Majesty, [George the Third,] was a 

 regular attendant at church, and that he repeated 

 the responses in a very distinct manner. About the 

 fortieth year of his reign he was, on some public 

 occasion, much hooted at by a mob. When at 

 chapel the next day he not only repeated the follow- 

 ing verse in a voice sufficiently loud to be heard 

 by every one in the chapel, but laid a peculiarly 

 strong emphasis on the last part of it, putting his 

 head at the same time out of the closet window : — 

 " i Forty years long have I been grieved with this 

 generation, and said, it is a people that do err in 

 their hearts, for they have not known my ways." 1 " 

 Before taking leave of these pleasant volumes, we 

 cannot but remark on the deamess of the work. 

 The two first volumes contain 634 pages, price £l 

 Is. while Selby's two volumes of British Orni- 

 thology contain 988 for the same money ; and is 

 besides a valuable standard work, while the other 

 is merely a scrap book. Then again, Mu die's Fea- 

 thered Tribes consists of 770 pages, each of which 



