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some nights afterwards brought their relations, making the number of visitors amount 

 to five, the number of cubs the litter he had been taken from was composed of. 

 I think Col. Sleeman believed this story to be perfectly true, although he could not 

 vouch for it. There is no account of any grown-up person having been found among 

 the wolves. Probably after a certain time they may have got into a set of less scru- 

 pulous wolves, not acquainted with the family: the result is obvious. — Sir R. I. Mur- 

 chison in Ann. Nat. Hist. 



Occurrence of the Osprey (Falco Haliaeetos) at the Land's End. — A very fine young 

 bird of the year of this species was killed during the present week from this locality. 

 All the feathers on the back are deeply edged with yellowish white. — Edward Hearle 

 Rodd ; Penzance, November 6, 1851. 



Occurrence of the Great Gray Shrike (Lanius Excubitor) and the Reed-wren (Sa- 

 licaria arundinacea) at Scilly. — A female specimen of the great grayNshrike was killed 

 during the present week at St. Mary's, Scilly ; and the reed-wren was also obtained. 

 These birds are of rare occurrence in this county, and the latter bird was only included 

 in our Fauna a year or two since, when several were obtained from the Scilly Isles. 

 — Id. 



Occurrence of the Fire-crested Regulus (Regulus ignicapillus) at Scilly. — I have 

 reported to you from time to time the occurrence of this species in several localities in 

 the West of Cornwall, but never I believe from the Scilly Isles. I can now, however, 

 do so, having examined an interesting specimen of an adult male bird, which was 

 shot a few days since by Augustus Pechell, Esq., a relative of the Lord Proprietor of 

 the Islands, to whom we are also indebted for the opportunity of recording the ortolan 

 bunting and whiskered tern as addenda to our Cornish Fauna. The specimen of the 

 fire-crest now under notice, exhibits all the characteristic markings of the species, and 

 if I should notice any one thing in its general appearance, it would be the remarkable 

 yellowish green colour which particularly pervades the sides of the neck, and which, 

 as you may be aware, is wanting in its congener, the gold-crest. I cannot detect any 

 difference in the comparative lengths of the tail in the two species ; and I mention 

 this merely as the point has been given as one of distinction between the two species, 

 that of the fire-crest being represented as longer than that of the gold -crest. — Id. ; 

 November 16, 1851. 



Occurrence of Richard's Pipit (Anthus Richardi) at the Scilly Isles. — A specimen 

 of this pipit was shot a few days since at St. Mary's, which I have examined in the 

 flesh. It was flushed from a swampy piece of ground, and resembled in flight and 

 manners as much those characters in the wagtails as in the pipits. It is now some 

 years since any have been noticed here. — Id. ; October 28, 1851. 



Flight of Woodcocks at the Land's End. — We have had several days' continuance 

 of the wind from the East, which yesterday brought a large flight of woodcocks in the 

 Land's End district. — Id. 



Occurrence of the Yellow-backed Whidah Finch (Vidua Chrysonolus, Swainson), 

 in England. — I am enabled, through the kindness of the Rev. W. S. Hore, to inform 

 you of the capture of an example of one of the Whidah finches in this country. The 

 bird, a female, was shot in the month of September upon Otmoor, in this county, and 

 exposed for sale, together with other small birds, in a poulterer's stall in the market- 



