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gentleman has informed me that within his knowledge, the 

 skull of this animal, with the horns affixed to it, was found 

 at the depth from the surface of sixty feet, in the Porth 

 Mining works, near Fowey. The horns were^off large size, 

 and much projecting forward, as in the Leicester breed of 

 cattle ; they belonged to one which, from his judgement of 

 the modern ox, might weigh 1000 pounds. In the collectino 

 of the Royal Geological Society at Penzance is a portion of 

 the Humerus of what appears to have been the same animal, 

 the circumference of the shaft of which measures twelve 

 inches. 



Of Birds 230 species are reported in the Cornish Fauna, 

 to which the following must now be added. 

 HONEY BUZZARD. Buteo Apivorus. Yarrell's Brit. 

 B., vol. 1. p. 85. A bird of the first year, killed in Corn- 

 wall, fell into the hands of Dr. Leach, and is now in the 

 British Museum. Mag. Nat. Hist. N. S. } vol. 1, p. 539. 

 SNOWY OWL. Strix Njctea. Yar. Brit. B., vol. I, 

 p. 134. Its occurrence in Cornwall is reported by Mr. 

 Bellamy, Nat. Hist, of south Devon, p. 200. The spe- 

 cimen is in the possession of the Reverend Mr. Hore, 

 where I had an opportunity of inspecting it. It had pro- 

 bably been driven hither by a storm, having suffered much 

 from the weather. 

 WOOD SHRIKE. Lanius Rutilus. Yar. Brit. B., vol. 1, 



p. 160. Reported by Mr. Rodd, of Penzance. 

 BLACK START. Phsenicura Tithys. Yar. Brit. B. vol. 1, 



p. 241. Reported by Mr. Rodd. 

 GREY HEADED WAGTAIL. Motacilla Neglecta. Yar. 

 Brit. B., vol. 1, p. 375. Mag. Nat. Hist., N. S., vol. 3, 

 p. 467. 

 WHITE CROSBILL. Loxia Falcirostra. Yar. Brit. B., 



vol. 2, p. 38. Reported by Mr. Rodd. 

 ROSE COLOURED PASTOR. Pastor Roseus. Yar. 

 Brit. B., vol. p. 51. Reported by Mr. Rodd, and 

 Mr. Mitchell. 

 The MAWMET PIGEON. Columba Turcica. Reported 

 in the Cornwall Gazette, as killed at St. Enoder in August 

 1840 ; it may probably be no other than a variety of th 

 Common Pigeon: the specimen escaped from confinement. 

 NIGHT HERON. Ardea Nycticorax. Yar. Brit. B., 

 vol. 2, p. 485. Specimens of the male and female and 

 young bird in nestling plumage have been obtained by Mr. 

 Rodd. The male was killed at Crowan; the female at or 

 near the Lizard; the young one was caught alive near 

 Newly n, and appeared to answer in every respect to the 

 Gardenian Heron of authors. Mr. Rodd, report of the 

 Royal Institution of Cornwall, 1839, p. 39. 



