16'2 CHAPTEE OF MISCELLANIES. 
With regard to Mr. Doublebay's list we have little to say, but it has given us 
an opportunity of stating our views relative to a subject hitherto undeservedly 
neglected in this country. We conclude our readers are acquainted with Mr. 
Jenyns’s work, and if so, they are in possession of the nomenclature of Double- 
day. It is far otherwise with the catalogue of Mr. C. T. Wood. Though it 
contains many blemishes, yet the names—supplied in English, French, German, 
and Latin—-have been collected with much care, and, generally, with success. 
None of the catalogues hitherto published are intended to impart any idea of 
classification, further than as regards the arrangement of genera and species, and 
in that they are all equally defective. Defective in our opinion they undoubtedly 
are, but we have no hesitation in recommending Mr. C. T. Wood's Ornithological 
Guide —notwithstanding the absurd orthography—as by far the best. 
We should be very glad if Mr. C. T. Wood, or any one competent to the task, 
would undertake to publish a similar catalogue of. the birds of Europe; and 
nothing would be more acceptable to the student than a good and carefully com¬ 
piled list of all the known species.—We have, however, occupied more space t^n 
we can well spare, on this subject, and must now conclude. 
CHAPTER OF MISCELLANIES, 
‘ ZOOLOGY. 
Antipathy of Cats to Water. —It is astonishing what an antipathy Cats 
have to water. Rather an extraordinary instance of this aversion has recently 
been related to me by a person now living in this town. When a boy he was 
ordered by his master to carry a Cat that had committed some theft, to the Place 
Farm (which was anciently the Nunnery), and there to leave her. For this 
purpose he put poor puss into a bag, and forth-with proceeded to carry the 
sentence into execution: instead of this, however, as he passed over the bridge 
on his way, he was induced by the unfortunate Cat—who, not relishing her con¬ 
finement, had kept up an incessant squalling—to turn her out of'the bag over the 
side of the bridge into the river, where he left her to her fate. A person on pas¬ 
sing under the bridge some considerable time afterwards (giot less than three 
weeks ; my informant says a month)^ found the Cat alive, sitting isolated upon a 
post under the bridge, but almost reduced to a skeleton. He relieved her from^ 
her perilous situation, and she ultimately recovered her health. This circum¬ 
stance is the more remarkable, as there was nothing except the water that 
prevented her from leaving her .forlorn situation; yet so great was the dread of 
