Quadrupeds. 4151 



Irish Mollusca" is contained in the more detailed and comprehensive 

 paper by that acute and indefatigable naturalist in a prior number of 

 the 'Zoologist,' (see Zool. 4101). This gentleman's note on Natica 

 sordida states that specimens of that rare mollusk were obtained by 

 him this summer off the Irish coast, by trawling in about 60 fathoms 

 water: in company with this shell was Fusus propinquus. The same 

 two mollusks have also been found in company off the coast of Wex- 

 ford ; and Dr. Melville has found them in close proximity off the 

 Isles of Arran, in Galway Bay. 



4 Shells and their Inhabitants. The Genera of Recent Mollusca 

 arranged according to their Organization? By Henry and 

 Arthur Adams. Part VII. London : Van Voorst. Novem- 

 ber, 1853. Demy Svo., with the plates plain, price 2s. 6d. ; 

 Royal 8vo., with the Animals coloured, price 5s. 



This part contains 32 pages of text and 4 plates, and comprises the 

 under-mentioned genera : — Volvaria, Lamarck ; Dolium, Browne ; 

 Cadium, Link; Ringicula, Deshayes; Sycotypus, Browne; Velutina, 

 Fleming; Lamellaria, Montagu; Cryptocella, Adams; Marsenina, 

 Gray; Coriocella, Blainville; N atica, Adanson ; Lunatia, Lamarck; 

 Neverita, Risso ; Ampullina, Lamarc k ; Ruma, Chemnitz; Mamma, 

 Klein ; Naticina, Gray ; Catinus, Klein ; Amaura, Moller ; Cassis, 

 Browne; Semicassis, Klein; Cassidea, Link; Levenia, Gray ; Scon- 

 sia, Gray ; Galeodea, Link ; Morum, Bolten ; Scala, Klein ; Cirso- 

 trema, Morch ; and Acus, Humphrey. 



The figures representing the shell and animal in their relative posi- 

 tions to each other are remarkably satisfactory, and do the artists, who 

 are also the authors, infinite credit. 



Anecdote of a Cow sucked by two Hedgehogs. — Having recently heard that my 

 relative, Mr. T. F. Buxton, of Leytonstone, Essex, had met with an instance in which 

 the old opinion on the above subject appeared to be verified, I wrote to him to request 

 information respecting it ; and I beg to forward his reply, together with a statement 

 made by his servant, for insertion in the ' Zoologist' 



Extract of a Letter addressed to Mr. J. H. Gurney by Mr. T. F. Buxton, of Ley. 

 tonstone, in Essex, dated November 9, 1853.—" One evening in the course of the sum- 

 mer I heard, several times repeated, a noise as of a blow on the iron palings of my 



