Fishes fyc. 4443 



Birds seen by myself, but not obtained. 



Osprey, Pandion haliceetus. Black Stork, Ciconia nigra. 



Raven, Corvus Corax. Pelican, Pelecanus onocrotalus. 



Common Kingfisher, Alcedo ispida. Large Gull. 



Common Crane, Grus cinerea. 



— E. C. Taylor; Chicknell, Bridgenorth, Salop, July 23, 1854. 



The Lesser Weever (Trachinus vipera). — The perusal of an interesting note (Zool. 

 3260) by the Rev. George Harris, upon the weevers, reminds me of a circumstance 

 which occurred within my own knowledge. A few years ago, when spending a week 

 in the South of England with a party of friends, we were invited by a gentleman to 

 have a sail in his yacht for Calais. We were leaving the harbour of that place, upon 

 our return home, when one of the seamen who handled the vessel, having been paddling 

 in the water with bare feet, put one of them upon what he called a " sting-fish," and 

 which, judging from all the circumstances, I have no doubt was the lesser weever. 

 His leg became painful, and in the course of a few hours much swelled and inflamed, 

 and upon reaching England he was obliged to desist from following his nautical 

 duties. By the aid of medical treatment the inflammation gradually abated, but many 

 weeks elapsed before he was able to resume his usual occupation. — John Joseph 

 Briggs ; King's Newton, Derbyshire, July, 1854. 



Things hoped for. By John Scott, Esq. 



" Are these things then necessities ? 

 Then let us meet them like necessities : — 

 And that same word even now cries out on us.'' 



Shakspeare, Henry IV. Part 2. 



a Time and the hour runs through the roughest day," and our 

 father's weary limbs refuse to bear them further. They are saying to 

 us, ' These works which we are about to leave behind us, have been 

 designed for your benefit, making the way much easier for you than 

 when we first set out on our journey. Walk steadily in the 

 same path ; imitate our example, and hope for excellence ; amend 

 what you may prove to be in error, and cherish such as is without 

 fault.' Time and the hour are doing for us what our fathers now feel. 

 We are fast slipping into the " sere and yellow leaf." It is coming 

 upon us with thief-like footsteps, and shortly the account of the 

 stewardship will be called for. Undoubtedly their places ought to be 



