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shore for many generations ! Should they be on 

 board a vessel about to quit the tier, they well 

 know, by " watching the governor's eye," what is 

 " up," and they immediately quit one vessel for 

 another. I merely give you an outline of this 

 curious matter. No doubt, when your exten- 

 sively-circulated Journal reaches the quarter of 

 the town of which I am speaking, you will get 

 " full and interesting particulars." The cat is 

 a truly sagacious animal, and as you say, if better 

 used, would be less troublesome. Cats really 

 are, for the most part, half starved; and no 

 wonder they stray in search of " something " 

 to keep their "nine lives" supported! — J. S. II. 



A curious Place for a Nest of Lizards. — The 

 following has just appeared in the Nottingham 

 Journal, and being authenticated, deserves a place 

 in your Paper; therefore I send it to you: — "A 

 poor woman, named Newbert, from Coddington, 

 was lately taken into the hospital at Newark. 

 After she had been there a few weeks, she began 

 to recover. On Thursday last, there was a slight 

 revulsion, and she vomited a lizard, five inches 

 long, apparently in perfect health — the long-con- 

 fined prisoner having thriven well in its singular 

 quarters. On Saturday, another lizard of the 

 same size was set at liberty; but one of the couple 

 unfortunately made its escape. The poor woman 

 says she recollects drinking some water from a 

 ditch several years ago, and supposes that she 

 might then have swallowed the spawn of the 

 animals. She believes she is not yet relieved of all 

 the un welcome inhabitants of her stomach." The 

 foregoing is curious, -is it not? I should have 

 imagined the heat of the stomach would have 

 proved fatal to the animals ; but it seems other- 

 wise.— H. A. T. 



[Such instances as the above, have been re- 

 corded some dozen times within our recollection. 

 They are curious, certainly, if true. As for the 

 woman imagining she swallowed spawn, and that 

 it was " hatched " in her stomach, — that is mon- 

 strously absurd. But for the respectable channel 

 in which the above statement appears, we should 

 have pronounced it a silly hoax.] 



The Siskin or Aberdevine. How to Catch. — 

 We have in the neighborhood of Bromsgrove a 

 number of these pretty creatures flying about. 

 Can you tell me how they may be trapped ? also, 

 how to feed them? — T., Bromsgrove. 



[Only the bird-catchers, who use the over- 

 lapping nets, can succeed in catching these birds. 

 Their food, when in confinement, is rape, flax, 

 and canary seed.] 



The Starling.— At page 69 of your excellent 

 Journal, you speak of the evening evolutions of 

 starlings before going to roost. Your descrip- 

 tion has so enchanted me and many other of your 

 Manchester friends, that if you will let this bird 

 and its habits have an. early place in your graphic 

 delineations, we shall feel greatly obliged. Your 

 paper, now that you have so thoroughly awakened 

 our sleepy booksellers, reaches us regularly. — 

 J. B , Manchester. 



[Be it as you desire. We will at a very early 

 period give what you wish, in detail. We are 

 delighted to hear that our paper now reaches you 



before it is a month old. We almost despaired 

 of being able to rouse your "sleepy booksellers;" 

 but they are now wide awake.] 



A Prospective Calendar of Insects. — In reply 

 to the suggestion of F. (p. 153), I would recom- 

 mend that the labor of compiling the Calendar 

 should be divided, as there are 15,000 species 

 named in " Curtis's Guide" (2nd Edition); and 

 that such insects as are rare, local, or varieties, 

 should be excluded. Also, that a portion should 

 appear each week in advance, so as to prevent an 

 undue allotment of space in any one number. I 

 will myself undertake the Order of Lepidoptera, 

 and send you a list of the few butterflies appear- 

 ing about April. — C. P., Boston. 



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Proper Cages for Nightingales. — Iliave laying 

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 British "Warblers; an Account of the genus 

 Sylvia, with Directions for their Treatment, &c, 

 &c, by R. Sweet, F.L.S.;" a work which all 

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