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According to Mr. Wigg the following birds of the Anas genus 
are very well flavoured. Eed-breasted Goose,* Erent Goose, FerrU' 
ginous Duck, Bimaculated Duck, Gadwall, Garganey. The Dean 
Goose is very badly flavoured. 
Birds of the Book genus hide acorns, and thus promote the 
growth of trees. — Vid. ‘Sturm’s Keflections,’t on 15th March. I 
saw the egg of the Hoopoe in the Jardin des Plantes in Public 
Museum, at Mr. Dufresne’s | and at Mr. Baillon’s § ; it is not so 
large as a Blackbird’s, rather longer for its size, and of a straw 
colour. 
Mem. — The Common Bunting is called Clod-bird in Sussex.] 
In the last fortnight of June there were several extremely hot 
days. The whole of July, and to the middle of August, the 
weather was showery but mild. 
August the 18th, began to reap Wheat. For some days past the 
Yellow Wren has resumed its song. 
* See Lubbock’s ‘Fauna of Norfolk/ ed. 2, p. 166, note. 
t The passage referred to is thus rendered in the translation published at 
Edinburgh, in 1783 : — “ And what is still more admirable, is, that nature 
seems to have given to some birds the care of planting trees. They sow the 
nuts, which afterwards shoot and grow. Eavens [!] have been thus seen to 
plant oaks ; and this is their method ; They make a hole with their bill, and 
drop an acorn into it, which they afterwards cover with earth and moss. It 
must not be supposed they do all this with an intention to plant trees. It is 
instinct alone which prompts them. They bury the acorn for their food. It 
shoots and becomes an oak.” — ‘ Eeflections on the Works of God, and of His 
providence, throughout all Nature, for every day in the year. Translated 
first from the German of Mr. C. C. Sturm, into French ; and now from the 
French into English ’ (vol. i. p. 220). 
J Dufresne was a dealer in Natural-History specimens, who about 1816 
entered the Museum of Paris as Aide-Naturaliste (see Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, 
p. 3). 
§ This celebrated naturalist, best known to us from the Crake which 
Vieillot called by his name, was the first to recognize as a distinct species 
the Pink-footed Goose, which he described in his “ Catalogue des Mammiferes, 
Oiseaux, Eeptiles, Poissons et Molusques testac^s observes dans I’arrondisse- 
ment d’ Abbeville,” published in the ‘ Mdmoirs de la Soci^td d’Emulation,’ of 
that city, for 1833. He was the son of one who had already done good service 
by the observations he contributed to Buffbn (see Teniminck, Man. d’Orn. 
vol. ii. p. 693). In a letter to his wife, from Abbeville, Mr. Whitear says, 
Mr. Baillon “ has given mo ton eggs, some very rare, and never found in 
England, though the bird is so.” 
