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the hollows of the sea, looking very black and disagreeable. Two of us took a spell 

 at the oar, by turns, with the fishermen, and worked away like Britons, till a noble 

 swell laid us high and dry on the shingles at Freshwater." — p. 35. 



Extract from the Rev. C. A. Burys Diary. — I have an idle half-hour, and as re- 

 ference to Mr. Wolley's trip down the Guadalquivir has led to my taking out of its 

 drawer my ' Spanish Journal,' I will copy an extract or two. 



" Sunday, Oct. 25, 1846. On the passage from Lisbon to Cadiz, — ' a whale seen.' 



" Gibraltar, Oct. 31. Our Newfoundland dog (alas! now no more) has become 

 quite at home, made innumerable quadruped acquaintances in the sheets, and a suffi- 

 cient number of biped friends in the kitchen. On board the ' Madrid ' he was popu- 

 lar with all but the head steward, whose attempts to keep him from coming down into 

 our cabin he generally contrived to evade. On one occasion, not obtaining admission, 

 he made his way to the omnibus (so called because therein were stowed, in small 

 space, eight gentlemen). Here he was accosted by the veteran soldier — " Holloa, old 

 fellow, no room for you here ! " whereupon he again made his way to our door, and set 

 all the servants who tried to arouse him at defiance. 



" The growth of vegetation on ' the Kock ' is wonderfully rapid after rain. The 

 fences are formed of the large aloe. One or two species of Cactus abound. The 

 most elegant tree is the black pepper tree : the castor oil tree thrives well. The birds 

 observed are the herring gull, purple sandpiper (numerous), Kentish plover, common 

 sandpiper, coot, little grebe, blackbird, skylark, black redstart, gray and white wag- 

 tails, house sparrow, willow warbler, a species of chat not British, and a warbler 

 nearly resembling the Dartford warbler. 



" Cadiz, Nov. 10. In the market this morning observed sparrow hawk, great 

 shrike, hawfinch, blackbird, thrush, common bunting, starling, red-legged partridge, 

 quail, wigeon, black-tailed godwit : on the rocks yesterday, turnstone, ring plover, 

 gray and pied wagtails, titlark, linnet, robin, black redstart. 



" Nov. 12. Embarked at 7 a. m. on board the ' Rapido' for Seville. Passage as 



far as San Lucar rather rough After entering the Guadalquivir and getting 



some breakfast, all better. Banks very uninteresting but for the birds, which abounded. 

 Among them the stately bustard, of which we saw considerable numbers ; wild ducks 

 and geese and wigeon swarmed. Twenty-three or twenty-four species were counted 

 during our ascent. Among them, peregrine falcon, kite, moor buzzard in great plenty, 

 sparrow hawk, raven, short-eared owl, vulture (Neophron ?), spoonbill (only one), he- 

 ron, bean goose, pink-footed goose (?), wild duck, wigeon, teal, golden plover, gray 

 plover, lapwing, curlew, little bustard, squacco heron (?)." — C. A. Bury. 



Mode of destroying Moths in Birds' Skins. — Some five or six years ago a gentle- 

 man sent me a golden eagle, shot in Norway : the bird was not dead, but winged 

 only ; and although every attention was paid to it, yet at the end of about ten months 

 it expired. The bird was mounted ; but not being much more than a year old, and 

 consequently not perfect in plumage, I did not case it, hoping at some future time to 

 obtain a better specimen. About two years ago I was sorry to find my bird very much 

 mothed, and on examination found it in several parts covered with ova. Now, to 

 plunge a golden eagle in a bath of prepared corrosive sublimate is no joke, at the 



