406 SXTPPLEMESTTAET NOTES, BY SIE TVM. JAEDINB. 



Journal of the Agricultural Society of England. It has only come 

 once under our own observation, disappearing, except in very limited 

 numbers, the year following. 



Jaedine Hall. — Letter LII., page 157, note. 

 This note refers to the old mansion-house of Jardine-hall, pulled 

 down about 1812. 



Bank-Swallow. — Letter LVII., page 175, text. 



Our observation in Scotland and the North of England has always 

 noted the H. riparia, or bank-swallow, to be the first in arriving. 



Irish Fauna.' — Letter LXIV., page 201, note. 



I forget the authority on which this note regarding Ledum palmtre 

 and Papaver nudicale was inserted. Neither are given in either Macl;ay's 

 " Flora Hibernica" or in Babington's Manual ; and, on writing to 

 Mr. MacUay for information, he states that Sir Charles Gieseke had been 

 mistaken in the plants — having seen only an imperfect specimen of 

 Andromeda polifoUa- in a hut in Ennis, while the P. cambrwum was 

 found both by Mr. Mackay and Dr. Graham in the habitat given for 

 tbe latter. 



White's hopes have been fulfilled, and we have now a host of natu- 

 ralists working out the natural history of Ireland, among whom William 

 Thompson has long taken the lead, and in his valuable zoological 

 papers in the annals of natural history has worked out, minutely and 

 successfully, many of the departments. These have again assumed the 

 form of a regular Irish Fauna in the work alluded to by the Editor. 

 The third volume, the completion of the Birds, being finished. For the 

 Botany, Mr. Macliay has given us a complete Flora. 



Foster-Dams. — Letter LXXVI., page 223, text and notes. 



In White's observation we have the account of a cat having suckled 

 young squirrels. In the "■ Zoological Journal," Mr. Broderip relates 

 that he saw a cat give suck to seven young rats. In these cases the 

 animal does not seem to be able to discriminate ; and we would be 

 almost tempted to consider that it is the relief alone to be afforded that 

 allows the intrusion of almost any young animal. In the case of a cow, 

 oi; ewe, on the contrary, it is with extreme difficulty that a strange calf 

 or lamb can be substituted for the real offspring ; and the common 

 practice among shepherds, in the ease of a dead lamb, is to apply the 

 skin around the stranger before introduction, smell being apparently the 

 guide to recognition or detection. 



The Vulture. — Letter liX'X'KVl., page 243, notes. 



Vultur {cathartesj Aura is an American species, not found in Africa. 

 The superstition mentioned in the note continues, but there seems no 

 foundation for it. 



