Zoology. 
the M. angustidens, Cuv., arid which, if this opinion should prove correct, 
would show that the remains of the latter animal had been found in three quar- 
ters of the world, Europe, Asia, America. Instit. 9th and 16th Novr. 1836. 
Migratory Birds in 1836 In the northern parts of England the effects and 
influence of season upon the movements of migratory birds, has been strongly 
exemplified during the present year. The cold and ungenial weather during the 
months of March, April, and May, delayed the arrival of most of our summer 
visitants from ten to fourteen days beyond the average period of their first ap- 
pearance, as deduced from a journal annually kept for more than fifteen years. 
It was also generally remarked that they were much fewer in numbers, and 
that some species were altogether absent in localities where in previous years 
they had been abundant. 
The departure of the Sylviadce, as well as the Hirundinidce, on their equato- 
rial movement, has also been unusually early, no doubt strongly influenced by 
the low temperature of the season. 
Before the 1st of September the most of the Warblers had disappeared, a few 
individuals of Sylvia trochilus alone remaining till the 8th or 10th of that month, 
and after the 20th of September, more than a month before their accustomed 
time, the Chimney Swallows and Martlets had entirely disappeared. It is worthy 
of remark, that the Crossbill, whose summer migrations extends to higher lati- 
tudes, were observed in Northumberland as late as the 2d of May, at which time 
the eggs in the ovary of the female were some of them as large as peas. 
The Fieldfare (Merula pilaris) one of our winter visitants, arrived in large 
flocks on the 24th and 25th of the present month, being a fortnight or more 
before the average time of its appearance. 
An extraordinary deficiency of the insect tribe, particularly Coleoptera and 
Lepidoptera, has been generally noticed throughout the north of England and 
Scotland, during the spring and summer just passed. P. J. S. 
Additions to the Entomology of the Edinburgh district The following coleop- 
terous insects have been captured during the two last seasons ; and as they are 
not contained in the Entomologia Edinensis of Messrs Wilson and Duncan, some 
record of them will not perhaps be considered devoid of interest. 
Haliplus melanocephalus. Braid marshes. The species is described by 
Stephens as having the interstices of the striae on the elytra impunctate ; my 
specimens have a few scattered punctures, but differ in no other respect. 
Hydroporus frater. Reservoir above south Queensferry, and in the fish-ponds 
at Newliston. 
12-pustulatus. Reservoir at south Queensferry a single individual. 
Hydrobius melanocephalus. Braid marshes. 
Sphseridium scarabseoides bipustulatum . 
Trichopteryx minima. Wall-top, Dalmeny park. 
Ips ferruginea. Wall-top, Dalmeny Park, two specimens only. 
Hister neglectus bimaculatus nitidulus ; all near south Queensferry. 
Onthophagus ovatus. King's Park, in dung. This is a very interesting ad- 
dition to our Fauna ; a few specimens were taken early in 1836 by Mr R. N. 
Greville. It is the only species hitherto found in Scotland. 
Aphodius contaminans. 
Telephorus ochropus. Roslin. 
