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the bottom of the cage, but, by a jerk, throw themselves up, and 

 walk about the wires as before. The weight of a mouse is as 

 near as possible to that of a half -penny. A gentleman now with 

 me says, that he observed one of them in his garden, with the 

 end of his tail twisted round a slender branch of a peach tree, 

 partaking of the fruit. 



You may recollect that I gave you, a few years ago, a list of 

 the names of men taken from birds : I shall now add a few more, 

 and if you find duplicates of some of them before given, it is with 

 a view of strengthening the proofs : — 



Eagle — Captain of Volunteers, Sulfolk. 



Falcon — late Consul at Algiers. 



Hobby — of Herefordshire, Inn holder: Gazette, 1805. 



Hen — Durham, near the Green Dragon, and two others of the 

 name elsewhere. 



Fowls — Married at St. James's Church, 1806. 



Bustard — An officer in the Army : Gazette. 



Goose (Mr.) Married to Miss Flock : Morning Post, 1807. 



Gray-goose (Mrs.) — Court of King's Bench, IS'ov. 14, 1806. 



Wildgoose — in the Army: Star, January 1805. 



Eaglcfinch — Queen Anne Street East : Gazette. 



Oriole, Mr. — Clifton near Bristol : 1807. {See Pennant.) 



Pheasant, Edward: Southwark Gazette, Jany. 17, 1807. 



Curlew: Star, Jany. 1805 (Taylor) Gazette. 



I hope you will excuse the trouble I give, should you think 

 my observations trivial. Let me hear from you, and 

 I am. Your most humble Servant, 



(Signed) John Treveltan, 

 Mr. Bewick, Engraver, Netthcomhe Court, near Taunton, 



St. Nicholas Ciiurch Yard, Newcastle on Tyne. August 12/7/, 1 807. 



Notes on the Irceding of the Stock Dove, Columha renas, Linn., 

 in the County of Durham, ivithin a few miles of Newcastle. — Wlion 

 on a visit to a friend on the 8th, 9th, and 10th of this month, my 

 attention was drawn by my friend to a Ring Dove, as he called 

 it, which had its nest on the top of an old summer house in tho 

 ^iirden. On looking at the young which were fledged and lying 



