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live to moth in museums, I have seen used, and have used myself with great 
effect, the huile de pHrole^ put into glass vessels like shallow finger-glasses; and 
four or five in a case of 20 feet long, will produce so powerful an effluvium,* that 
it is necessary to have as many watch-glasses, with small portions of musk in 
them, to make it bearable. But this, in good air-tight cases, is of little conse¬ 
quence.— Magazine of Natural History^ New Series^ No. /F., April., 1837. 
Instance of the Missel Thrush singing on the Wing. —Instances of this 
bird having been known to sing while flying have from time to time been recorded. 
The circumstance is certainly not one of common occurrence, though we have 
noticed it more than once. A few days ago one flew from a tree close to where 
we were standing, singing all the while, and we listened to the notes until they 
were at length lost in the distance. We never met with a more remarkable in¬ 
stance of the fact than this; as the bird in most cases only utters its strain 
while flying from one lofty tree to another close at hand.— Ed. 
Hawking with the Golden Eagle. —The following remarkable fact is, we 
believe, without a precedent in the annals of hawking:—Captain Green, of 
Buckden, in Huntingdonshire, has now in his possession a splendid specimen of 
the Golden Eagle, which he has himself trained to take Hares and Babbits.— 
When the difficulty even of handling a bird of the size and strength of the 
Golden Eagle is considered, the performance of Captain Green must be deemed 
extraordinary. Hawks are carried on the fist of the falconer, but this would 
be impracticable with a bird of this size and weight; recourse was therefore 
had to a very ingenious invention, as a substitute for the fist.— Doncaster 
Gazette^ Nov. 11, 1836. [What the ‘‘ingenious invention” was, we are not 
informed.— Ed.] 
Entomological Bibliography.— A zealous entomologist, M. Percheron, who 
has been much inconvenienced in his studies by having to seek for information 
Scattered through various works in the forms of monographs, treatises, memoirs, 
notices, &c., is about to publish a catalogue raisonne of all the entomological 
works now known, in order to facilitate the researches of future students. 
The Darklegged Warbler {Sylvia loquax, Herbert). —The first migratory 
bird we noticed in the north of England this year, was a Darklegged Warbler. 
We observed one individual flying briskly about a wet ditch, on the morning of 
April 21, very lively, but apparently hungry. It first settled on the hedge above, 
then descended upon the bank, or darted down upon a slender twig close to the 
water, a drop of which it would occasionally sip. It was extremely tame, and 
evidently looked upon us as friendly to the feathered race. Sometimes it would 
This we consider a fgreat drawback to the introduction into common use of tlie hulle de 
nitrole. — Ed. 
