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APPENDIX. 



Naturalist, and then of the trading Naturalist. The 

 reader will not fail to perceive how much original infor- 

 mation is to be acquired in the closet, and how much by 

 ranging through the boundless fields of nature. « 



To say nothing of the zoological communications to be 

 found in the Wanderings, I have presented to Mr. 

 Loudon's invaluable Magazine of Natural History above 

 sixty papers of original observations, made with the 

 greatest care in Nature's lovely garden. 



After years of attention to the economy of birds, I 

 have succeeded in getting the barn-owl, the brown owl, 

 the heron, the jackdaw, the magpie, the carrion crow, 

 the mallard, the pheasant, the starling, the woodpecker, 

 the ox-eye titmouse, the waterhen, the thrush, and the 

 blackbird, to build their nests, and take away their 

 young in safety, at a stone-throw of each other. 



I have pointed out the duck and the drake clothed in 

 the same plumage only for a Yery short time in summer. 

 I have noted down the morning and the evening flight 

 of the rook in this district, which evolution may be seen 

 every day for six months in the year; and I have 

 cleared up the mystery of the loss of feathers, which this 

 useful bird experiences at the base of its bill. I have 

 shown which birds cover their eggs, and which birds 

 never cover their eggs at all, on leaving the nest. I 

 have shown that one hawk never molests the feathered 

 tribes ; and that another (scarcely to be distinguished 

 from this when on the wing) destroys them indis- 

 criminately. I have shown that the wigeon feeds by 

 day, eating grass like a goose ; whilst its congener, the 

 mallard, invariably refuses this food, and seeks for its 

 sustenance by night. I have given to the public an 

 entirely new method of preserving the eggs of birds for 

 cabinets ; and I have pointed out a process for preparing 

 insects, so that they will never corrupt, or be exposed 



