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to make a tolerable bird of it. I observed 

 that the bird's crop was nearly full of 

 barley. Quails are not at all common in this 

 part of Hampshire, I never remember 

 seeing more than two or three before, and 

 none of them were killed, The Rev. 

 Gilbert White, in the "Natural History of 

 Selborne," (which village is about twelve 

 miles from here,) says in Letter v., "there 

 are few quails" found at Selbourne,but " after 

 harvest, some few land rails are seen," 

 this remark also applies to Moundsmere. — 

 Anthony S.Bkadby, Moundsmere, Hants, 

 October 28th, 1865. 



Occurrence of a Pied Pheasant at 

 Moundsmere. "A. very nice pied variety of the 

 common Pheasant was shot on Tuesday, 

 October 17th, by Mr. A. D. Bradley, in 

 a hedgerow near Preston Oak Hills. The 

 following is as near a description of it as I 

 can give : — Head and neck nearly white, 

 body brown and white, nicely intermixed, 

 wings same colour as body, lower part of 

 back white, tail brown, with the exception 

 of one feather which is quite white, legs 

 and feet white, eyes of a very light colour. 

 There are very few Pheasants about here. 

 This bird was in beautiful condition being 

 nearly free from any stains of blood, the 

 feathers were pretty well up, but certainly 

 some would have been better had the bird 

 been further advanced in the moult. — 

 Anthony S. Beadby, Moundsmere, Mi- 

 cheldever, Hants, October 30th, 1865. 



Occurrence of Chcerocampa celerio at 

 Waltham Abbey . — I beg leave to forward 

 you an extract from the " Waltham Abbey 

 and C'hesJiimt Telegraph,^' a local paper in 

 Hertfordshire, of last week's date, which 

 writes thus : — " One of the rarest of our 

 British moths was captured a few days ago 

 at Waltham Abbey. This beautiful moth 

 Chmrocampa celerio, very seldom appears 

 in this county, and this only in isolated 

 specimens, one only having ever been 

 taken in this district before, and even that 

 many years ago. The present specimen, 

 which is in very fair condition, was taken 



by Mr. Chas. Pryor, and is now in Mr. 



Wakefield's collection, at Waltham Cross." 

 This information may be interesting to 

 many entomologists, and I would add that 

 Atropos hsLS, in chrysalis state, been abund- 

 antly taken around Cheshunt, and that I 

 myself, as also others have had already fine 

 specimens emerge from the chrysalis. — 

 Augustine Gaviller, Manor-Road, Stam- 

 ford Hill, October 31st, 1865. 



Inula salicina, D. Cand. in Ireland. — Dr. 

 David Moore of Glasnevin, has a paper^ in 

 Jour, of fBotany, No. xxxv.;\on_^his disco- 

 very of Inula salicina, on the margin of 

 Lough Derg, in County Gal way. He states 

 that he first noticed the plant when search- 

 ing for specimens of Teucrium scordium, in 

 June 1843, and being then in a flowerless 

 state he took it for a stunted form of Hier- 

 acium prenanthoides. The specimens he 

 then gathered have remained in his herba- 

 rium as of doubtful name until Ihe present 

 year, when on looking over the herbarium, 

 with Mr. G. More, for a little work upon 

 which they are engaged, they were 

 brought to light J and as Mr. More 

 was coming to England, they were brought 

 by him to be submitted to some bo- 

 tanical friends. When Mr. Syme saw the 

 specimens he at once suggested they might 

 prove to be Inula salicina, and in order to 

 set the matter at rest. Dr. Moore paid 

 another visit to the locality in August of 

 the present year. He again found the 

 plants, but only two of them were ia 

 flower, the rest having gone to seed. It 

 grows on the side of the lake among 

 rough herbage, consisting principally of 

 Schoenus nigricans, Molinia ccerulea, Galium 

 boreale, Solidago Virga-aurea, &c., and 

 was traced for more than two miles along 

 the shore from Portumna onward until the 

 ground became muddy and soft, when the 

 herbage changed and the plant ceased to 

 grow. In concluding his notice Dr. ]\[oore 

 says, " After comparing our plant with the 



