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the same period as that animal : and I am the more convinced 
of my original idea, that a number of them must have been 
stranded in coming up the Forth at the same time, and that 
many more of the flock remain to be discovered, where chance 
may direct the improvements on neighbouring estates. The 
lovers of natural history are under great obligations to his Lord- 
ship, for he has, in his usual liberal manner, determined to pro- 
secute the investigation, and has requested me to convey to you 
his wishes, and the pleasure he shall have of complying with 
every thing which may be deemed necessary relative to the des- 
tiny of the whale. When the crop is removed, I am command- 
ed to assure you, that these very interesting remains are entirely 
at your disposal.*— Letter from Mr Keddoch to Professor Jame- 
son . 
19- Fossil Elephant's Tooth found in Cheshire .■ — The grind- 
er of a fossil elephant has been lately found in a marl-pit, near 
Sandbach in Cheshire, and is now deposited in the Museum of 
the Royal Institution of Liverpool. 
SO. Sangiovanni on the Regeneration of Earth-worms. — Dr 
G. Sangiovanni of Naples, an intelligent comparative anatomist, 
laid before the Academy of Sciences of Naples, a very interest- 
ing detail of experiments he made on the common earth-worm 
(Lumbricus terrestris), from which it appears, that he cut three 
of these animals into six, and that, in the course of a few 
months, these grew so as to form six perfect worms. 
21. The Trumpeter-Bird , a true Ventriloquist. — Dr Traill 
informs us, that one of his friends in Liverpool has a living spe- 
cimen of the Psophia crepitans, the Trumpeter of English 
ornithologists. It is, he says, a very social bird, following every 
individual of the family, and allowing itself to be caressed. 
The noise it makes has been supposed by some naturalists to have 
proceeded from the anus ; but Dr Traill has ascertained that the 
bird is a genuine ventriloquist , of the most perfect sort. In 
this specimen, too, the bill is remarkable, by having the lower 
mandible about one quarter of an inch longer than the upper. 
This seems to be the usual form of the bill, but may easily be 
lost in dead specimens, or in stuffed skins.-— -Some of the frog 
tribe are also remarkable for their ventriloquial powers. 
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