'288 Entomological Magazine. 



White on the length of Life of a species of Parrot ; with suggestions for ascer- 

 taining the average period of existence of the whole animal creation ; and an 

 anecdote on a parrot, p. 847-350. The parrot appears to have died in not less 



than its 85th year Blyth on the various seasonal and other external changes 



which regularly take place in birds, more particularly in those which occur in 

 Britain ; with remarks on their great importance in indicating the true affinities 



of species ; and upon the Natural System of arrangement, p. 394-409 Wa- 



terton on the Habits of the Magpie, p. 225-9 ; of the Dovecot Pigeon, p. 343- 

 6; and of the Stormcock or Mistletoe Thrush, p. 409-13. Morris on the Ha- 

 bits and personal characteristics of the Crossbill, p. 413-16 WATERTONand 



Morris on the office of the gland upon the rump of birds, p. 266-271 ; 323-26; 

 434-7. The discussion has been carried on in a flippant and acrimonious man- 

 ner creditable to neither party, and very unsatisfactory to a naturalist in search of 

 the truth. We need not, however, hesitate, to express our belief that Mr W. 

 will be found to be correct in his opinions Salway's notice of the dis- 

 covery of the Skeletons of Swifts and Starlings in the tower of the church at 



Oswestry, Shropshire Hoy on the capture of the Motacilla neglecta at Stoke 



Nayland, Suffolk Ord on the Habits of the Black snake Waterton 



on the Habits of the Chegoe of Guiana, p. 290-293; to which the editor has ju- 

 diciously appended a translation of Pohl and Kollar's account of the Pulex pe- 

 netrans, by Mr Shuckard, with some excellent illustrative figures John- 

 ston on the Acarus Basteri, p. 353 ; Lamellaria tentaculata, p. 229 ; Asterias 

 aranciaca, p. 298 ; Ast. endeca, p. 299 ; Ophiura Rosula, p. 231 ; and Gordius 

 aquaticus, p. 355, Templeton's Catalogue of the Annulose Rayed and Poly- 

 pous animals found in Ireland, as selected from the papers of the late J. Tem- 

 pleton, Esq. with localities, descriptions, and illustrations, p. 233-240 ; p. 301- 

 5 ; p. 417-421. The Actinia monile of Templeton is the young of Act. senilis ; 

 and his Actinia margaritifera is the common Act. mesembryanthemum. 



II. Botany. 

 Babington's Localities of several species of British plants observed during 

 the summer of 1835, p. 243-246. 



Entomological Magazine. London, July 1836. (Continued from 

 p. 192.) 



With this number a fourth volume is commenced, to which we wish success, 

 as it is a publication valuable on many accounts to the entomologist, but par- 

 ticularly so, for the various monographs it contains. It is prefaced by a short 

 introductory address, and the minutes of the Entomological Club, the members 

 of which association, in consequence of the valuable property they have acquired in 

 collections of insects, books, and manuscripts, have found it necessary to frame 

 an institution and code of laws. Among the resolutions we are glad to observe 

 that a special object of the club is to form a model named-cabinet of insects, 

 unquestionably British, and another, that all entomologists consulting the library 

 or Cabinet shall be at perfect liberty to make notes, memoranda, descriptions, 

 or drawings of any insect, or from any book, or manuscripts contained therein 

 Art. 1. Francis Walker, Monographia Chalciditum, (continued from Vol. iii. p 



496.) 2c?. Wanderings and Ponderings of an Insect-hunter 3c?. A. H 



Haliday, M. A. Essay on Parasitic Hymenoptera, (continued from Vol. iii. p 

 147.) 4. Observations on certain curious indentations in the old red sand 



