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INTELLIGENCE. 
ZOOLOGICAL. 
Hersilia, Savigny. This genus of spiders is remarkable, 1st, for having three 
joints in the tarsus, which is an anomalous fact in its class, and <2dly, for the 
smoothness of the claws, for the claw of every other known spider is toothed 
or pectinated. These curious deviations from the ordinary structure are un- 
doubtedly accompanied with corresponding peculiarities in the habits of the spe- 
cies, but with these habits we are unacquainted. Three species are known, one 
a native of Egypt (Cairo,) the others of India, having been sent from Bombay, 
and the coast of Malabar. Guerin, Mag. de Zoologie. 
Pleurotuckus, nov. gen. Characterized at p. 142. Mr J. E. Gray informs us 
that this is synonymous with his genus Cicigna in Griffith's edition of the " Ani- 
mal Kingdom," and with the Pteropleura of Weigmann. EDITS. 
Upupa Epops A beautiful specimen of the Hoopoe was shot near Coylton 
in Ayrshire on the 16th of October 1836 P. W. Maclagan. 
Falco rujipes. A fine mature male was shot on the Durham coast between 
South Shields and Marsden rocks, in the middle of last October. It was in com- 
pany with another, which unfortunately escaped. The stomach was filled with 
coleopterous insects. Albany Hancock. 
Motacilla neglecta A male specimen of this interesting species was shot a 
little west of Newcastle on the 1st of last May. It was with another, probably 
a female ; and from the lateness of the season it is likely they might have bred 
in the neighbourhood. When my brother was in Norway he met with several 
individuals of this species^but procured only one. It appears to be the common 
bird of that part of Europe, and is so perhaps over the whole continent, the 
neglecta being the species described by the continental writers as theflava of 
Ray Albany Hancock. 
Regulus ignicapillus An individual of this beautiful little bird was taken on 
the rigging of a ship five miles off the Norfolk coast in the early part of last Oc- 
tober. Albany Hancock. 
Larus minutus. A specimen of this bird, in the first plumage, was killed at 
the mouth of the river Tyne last September. Albany Hancock, Nov. 21, 1836. 
Hipparchia blandina Five specimens were captured about the 21st of Au- 
gust 1836, at the foot of Whernside in Craven, Yorkshire, by Abraham Clap- 
ham, Esq., a pair of which were presented by him to the museum of the Leeds 
Phil, and Lit. Society, and one to myself. Henry Denny. 
Luminosity of the Sea and Cholera. From 1810 M. Surivay had observed 
