CONTE NTS. 
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
PAGE. 
Description of the Kingfisher (Alcedo ispida) 3 by Robert Mudie, with 
a coloured Engraving.... 193 
On the Nature and Uses of the Primaeval Vegetation of the Earth, by 
Robert Dickson, M.D., F.L.S. ...... 197 
Reminiscences of the Rhine, Ornithological and Entomological (continued 
from page 168) ......... 202 
On Botanical Terms.. ..... 208 
Food of the Hedge Coalhood, (Pyrrhula vulgaris) 3 by J. P. Selby. 208 
A Botanical Tour in Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, and South Wales, 
with incidental Notices of the Scenery, Antiquities, &c., by Edwin 
Lees, F.L.S., &c. ... 209 
Remarks on the present Nomenclature of British Ornithology, with a view 
to its revision and correction, by the Rev. F. Orpen Morris (con¬ 
tinued from page 163)..... 216 
Remarkable Instances of Nidification, by C. T. Wood . 221 
Notes of a Botanist (continued from page 124)..... 222 
Instances of Curious Varieties of Birds . 224 
REVIEWS. 
The Natural History of Birds, by W. Swainson, A.C.G., F.R.S.L.S.,. 225 
The Naturalist’s Library: Ornithology: vols. 1 to 6...... 229 
EXTRACTS FROM FOREIGN SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS. 
Entomological—(Abstract of Dr. Erichson’s Systematic Distribution of the 
Bostrichidse , (Bark Beetles), from Wiegman’s Archiv.fiir Natur- 
geschichte ...... ..... 233 
Botanical . 237 
Zoological. 239 
Geological. 239 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Notices of the Capture of Insects, with cursory observations thereon, by J. C. Dale, Esq., 
in our next Number. 
An accurate Engraving of the Encrinite, to which we have previously alluded in our 
Notice to Correspondents, has been submitted to several celebrated Geologists, who have not 
been enabled to identify the species. We must, therefore, induce the possessor, (Mr. Evans, 
the Secretary of the Worcestershire Natural History Society), either to grant the loan of the 
Fossil, or favour us with a model, with the view of obtaining a correct description. 
Communications and Books for Review to be addressed to the Editors 
of “ The Naturalist,” to the care of Mr. Groombridge, Paternoster-row, 
London. 
