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more sparingly on a bank near the railway, on the London road, a little 

 above the first arch. 

 Bobertianum, L. Herb Eobert. Bab. 66. Woods and hedgebanks. 

 Erodium. L'Herit. Stork'sbill. 

 E. cicutarium, Sm. Bab. 66. Waste ground, as Fernfield j also frequently 

 in cloverfields, where it attains a large si^e. 



Order XX— LINACEiE. 

 LiNUM. Linn. Flax. 

 * L. usitatissimum, L. Bab. 67. In cornfields, but nowhere constant. 

 Near the Union House, Saunderton ; near the obelisk, Hughenden, Mi8s 

 Chandle7\ 



L. eatharticum, L. Bab. 67. Commons, roadsides, and dry pastures. 



ADDITIOi^S TO EOWE'S CATALOGUE OF THE MAMMALS, 



BIRDS, &c.. OF DEVOK 



By G. F. Mathew, R.N., F.L.S., &c. 



In 1863, " A catalogue of the Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, and Amphi- 

 bians, indigenous to, or observed in the county of Devon," was published by 

 Van Voorst. Its author, J. Brooking Rowe, Esq., F.L.S., of Plymouth, is a 

 gentleman well known in scientific circles, as one who has been, and still is, 

 working hard at the Natural History of Devon. However, in this catalogue, 

 which no doubt many of your readers have seen, several birds that have 

 occurred in the northern division of the county are omitted, and other species 

 which appear to be rare in the south are met with more frequently in the 

 north, so perhaps, a list of these birds may not prove altogether uninteresting 

 to the ornithological portion of your readers. 



Spotted Eagle, Aquila ncevia, Briss. I think it but right to state that 

 this extremely rare bird, which was recorded in Zoologist, p. 7380, as having 

 been shot by Mr. Heaven, on Lundy island, fell over the cliffs and was never 

 o]>tamed. It was only by collecting a few of the feathers which were blown 

 inland that the species was determined. 



Wryneck, Yunx torquilla, Linn. The latter end of August, or the 

 beginning of September 1858, I shot a young example of this species as it 

 flew from an elm tree. It had been but a few days from the nest, as the 

 greater part of its feathers were tipped with down. 



