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I was obliged to use a knife to make the hole large enough. Having 

 satisfied myself I left the eggs. * * * * These birds, I am 

 almost certain the same pair, made this hole their nest for three 

 years."— Page 20. 



5. Female Cuckoo singing. 



" Between eight and nine one evening in June last, I saw a female 

 cuckoo flying towards a plantation at Shenriers Bridge, near Totnes, 

 Devonshire, where I had frequently heard her fine clear liquid notes, 

 &c."— Page 22. 



6. Martins killing a Sparrow. 



" In the summer of 1849, a pair of martins built their nest in an 

 archway at the stables of Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, and as soon 

 as they finished building it, and had lined it, a sparrow took pos- 

 session of it, and although the martins tried several times to eject him, 

 they were unsuccessful, his hard beak being too formidable an obstacle 

 for the tender beaks of the martins ; but they, nothing daunted, left his 

 lordship the sparrow in full possession, and then flew to scour the 

 neighbourhood for help, returning in a short space of time with 

 about thirty or forty martins, who went, or rather flew, in a body to 

 the sparrow in the nest, and having dragged the unfortunate culprit 

 out, took him to the grassplot opposite, called the circle, and there 

 they all fell, pell mell, on him and killed him." — Page 23. 



The other zoological papers are of a similar character, and should 

 it hereafter prove that I am mistaken as to their value ; should they 

 really be received as sound additions to our knowledge of Nature's 

 works ; I shall only be too happy in having been the humble means 

 of giving them greater publicity than they could obtain in the pages 

 of a journal, which, whatever its ultimate destiny, cannot at present 

 expect to rival my own in circulation. 



Edward Newman. 



The Tinearisfs Calender for April. — Referring my readers to the last volume of 

 the ' Zoologist ' (Zool. 2788), I have only to add to the species there enumerated, that 

 the following should now be looked for. The larvae of Depressaria assimilella and 

 atomella, on broom, the latter species also on Genista tinctoria; the larvae of D. uli- 

 cetella will probably be found in the shoots of the furze. The larvae of Coleophora 

 albitarsella on Glechoma hederacea (ground ivy), in narrow brown cases. The larva 

 of C. spissicornis, lam informed, feeds on Centaurea nigra, that of the beautiful Con- 

 IX. Q 



