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white, and seem to be of a closer and stronger texture than usual, but no other pecu- 

 liarity is observable. It is however worthy of notice, that the cover which formed its 

 constant haunt when not disturbed, is a piece of wood not exceeding fifty acres in ex- 

 tent ; thus proving the disposition of the woodcock to return, not only to the same 

 district, but to the same spot which it has once frequented, and to which it is proba- 

 bly first directed by the parent bird, or by other companions older than itself." — Pro- 

 feedings of the Zoological Society, October 12, 1841 ; p. 79. 



Note on Birds in March. — 



" On the 11th, the lesser pettychaps or chifF-chaff is sometimes heard, but is more 

 commonly later. The stone-curlew appears about the same time. The jack-snipe and 

 woodcock take their departure. The wheatear arrives about the 23rd or 25th, and the 

 blackcap and redstart, in the southern counties, appear at the end of the month if the 

 weather is very fine." — Van VoorsVs Naturalists' Almanack, for 1843. 



Note on the occurrence near Polperro, in Cornwally of a Fish new 

 to the British Catalogue, and supposed to he the Orphe of Ron - 

 deletius. By Jonathan Couch, Esq., F.L.S., &c. 



Couch's Sea-bream, 



The sparoid fishes are found to bear so considerable a resemblance 

 to each other in form and colour, and until very recent times have 

 been so inadequately represented in figures, most of which have been 

 taken from dried skins, in which all the distinguishing maiks of life 

 and separation from one another have been lost, — that we need not 



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