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  THE 
  ZOOLOGIST. 
  

  

  of 
  the 
  late 
  Mr. 
  John 
  Cordeaux, 
  whose 
  opinion 
  ou 
  such 
  matters 
  I 
  valued. 
  

   If 
  I 
  knew 
  exactly 
  on 
  which 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  political 
  boundary 
  the 
  bird 
  

   occurred, 
  and 
  it 
  was 
  outside 
  our 
  boundary, 
  I 
  said 
  so 
  ; 
  but 
  I 
  have 
  

   seldom 
  taken 
  much 
  trouble 
  to 
  ascertain 
  this, 
  as 
  the 
  question 
  whether 
  

   a 
  bird 
  fell 
  dead, 
  or 
  was 
  seen, 
  on 
  one 
  side 
  or 
  the 
  other 
  of 
  an 
  artificial 
  

   boundary 
  line 
  does 
  not 
  seem 
  to 
  me 
  of 
  much 
  importance. 
  It 
  is 
  the 
  

   usual 
  custom 
  of 
  recorders 
  (not 
  holding 
  a 
  brief 
  for 
  any 
  particular 
  

   county), 
  when 
  giving 
  the 
  locality 
  of 
  the 
  occurrence 
  of 
  a 
  rare 
  bird, 
  to 
  

   mention 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  the 
  nearest 
  well-known 
  place. 
  And 
  I 
  entirely 
  

   dissent 
  on 
  this 
  account 
  from 
  Mr. 
  Cocks's 
  conclusion 
  that 
  the 
  locality 
  

   "near 
  Reading" 
  (in 
  the 
  case 
  of 
  a 
  water-bird 
  like 
  the 
  Purple 
  Heron) 
  

   must, 
  in 
  the 
  absence 
  of 
  more 
  precise 
  locality, 
  necessarily 
  assign 
  the 
  

   bird 
  as 
  belonging 
  to 
  Berkshire. 
  On 
  whichever 
  bank 
  of 
  the 
  river 
  it 
  was 
  

   killed, 
  a 
  recorder 
  having 
  no 
  interest 
  in 
  championing, 
  ornithologically, 
  

   either 
  county 
  would 
  give 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  the 
  nearest 
  important 
  place 
  as 
  

   its 
  locality. 
  The 
  fairer 
  way 
  is 
  to 
  treat 
  the 
  bird 
  as 
  belonging 
  to 
  both 
  

   counties 
  equally. 
  But 
  if 
  one 
  is 
  to 
  presume, 
  or 
  assume, 
  the 
  pre- 
  

   sumption 
  is 
  that 
  this 
  Heron 
  would 
  keep 
  to 
  the 
  Oxfordshire 
  bank 
  of 
  the 
  

   river 
  as 
  much 
  as 
  possible, 
  and 
  as 
  far 
  from 
  the 
  manufacturing 
  town 
  of 
  

   Reading 
  as 
  possible 
  ! 
  I 
  plead 
  guilty 
  to 
  having, 
  by 
  a 
  slip 
  of 
  the 
  pen, 
  

   written 
  Berks 
  for 
  Bucks 
  in 
  two 
  places. 
  I 
  fear 
  that 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  I 
  

   wrote 
  my 
  paper 
  only 
  in 
  the 
  interests 
  of 
  Oxon 
  (and 
  that 
  both 
  Berks 
  and 
  

   Bucks, 
  so 
  closely 
  interwoven 
  ornithologically 
  in 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  earliest 
  

   county 
  bird-books, 
  were 
  outside 
  the 
  object 
  of 
  that 
  paper) 
  may 
  have 
  

   occasioned 
  me 
  to 
  overlook 
  the 
  mistake 
  in 
  the 
  proofs. 
  Woburn 
  I 
  spelt 
  

   as 
  it 
  is 
  written 
  in 
  the 
  book 
  from 
  which 
  I 
  quoted. 
  I 
  assigned 
  the 
  village 
  

   to 
  neither 
  Berks 
  nor 
  Bucks, 
  nor 
  did 
  Clark-Kennedy, 
  whose 
  book 
  applied 
  

   to 
  both. 
  I 
  do 
  not 
  quite 
  understand 
  if 
  Mr. 
  Cocks's 
  remarks 
  (top 
  of 
  

   p. 
  35) 
  should 
  apply 
  to 
  the 
  Golden 
  Oriole 
  or 
  the 
  Ring-Ouzel. 
  0. 
  V. 
  

   Aplin 
  (Bloxham, 
  Oxon). 
  

  

  BATEACHIA. 
  

  

  Diseases 
  of 
  Salamanders. 
  — 
  About 
  July 
  last 
  I 
  bought 
  two 
  Spotted 
  

   Salamanders, 
  a 
  male 
  and 
  female. 
  Both 
  appeared 
  to 
  be 
  in 
  perfect 
  

   health 
  and 
  condition 
  at 
  the 
  time 
  of 
  the 
  purchase, 
  the 
  colours 
  being 
  very 
  

   bright, 
  and 
  the 
  action 
  of 
  the 
  Salamanders 
  being 
  particularly 
  quick. 
  

   About 
  three 
  weeks 
  after 
  the 
  purchase, 
  however, 
  I 
  noticed 
  that 
  the 
  

   colours 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  had 
  become 
  dull 
  and 
  faded, 
  and 
  on 
  investigation 
  I 
  

   noticed 
  that 
  both 
  its 
  front 
  feet 
  had 
  bad 
  open 
  wounds 
  on 
  them, 
  as 
  

   if 
  they 
  had 
  been 
  bitten 
  at 
  some 
  time 
  or 
  other. 
  I 
  at 
  once 
  removed 
  the 
  

   creature 
  from 
  my 
  vivarium, 
  and 
  put 
  it 
  into 
  a 
  smaller 
  one 
  alone. 
  

   The 
  next 
  morning 
  I 
  found 
  that 
  similar 
  sores 
  had 
  broken 
  out 
  on 
  its 
  tail, 
  

  

  