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BIRDS FOUND IN LANCASHIRE, 
such a nomenclature introduced by which we may speak of the animal mind, let 
us not only speak of instinct, but the kind of instinct. Mr. Neville Wood, in 
his British Song Birds, has done something towards this, and though some may 
perhaps smile at it, such is the fate which all new things meet with. 
In a volume of Transactions published by the Edinburgh Phrenological Society, 
there is a communication from Mr. Carmichael, of Dublin, “ On the Mode of 
studying the Natural Dispositions and Instincts of the Lower Animals.” It is 
brief but instructive, and perhaps some of your readers who have not seen the 
work referred to, may be interested by a short extract from it. Mr. C. says :— 
My plan is very simple. To form four columns, under the name of the ani¬ 
mals. In the first column to insert all the habits, &c., of the animal recorded. In 
the second, to reduce these to such of the thirty-three faculties of man as they 
might most properly be ascribed to. In the third, to state whether the respec¬ 
tive organs had been ascertained or not. And to leave the fourth for observations 
respecting the differences between the male and female, and for pointing out 
prominences supposed to be organs, the faculties of which had not yet been dis¬ 
covered. Such a synopsis would exhibit at a glance the whole of our informa¬ 
tion, and all our deficiencies; but in the present state of our knowledge the 
two last columns would be nearly blanks.” I may add that Dr. Vimont has 
lately published upon this interesting question, but I have had no opportunity of 
seeing his work, and am only acquainted with its nature and contents from the 
accounts of it, and the extracts which have appeared in the Phrenological Jour¬ 
nal, and in The Naturalist. 
Blyth, near Bawtry, Notts. 
Aug. 9, 1837. 
CATALOGUE OF BIRDS FOUND IN LANCASHIRE. 
By Peter Rylands, Esquire. 
Class AVES.'"' 
Order I. RAPTORES. 
ii. Aquila. Eagle. 
4. hali(Etus. Osprey Eagle. Southport., 
iii. Falco. Falcon. 
e. peregrinus. Peregrine Falcon. 
7. subbuteo. Hobby Falcon. 
* I have not in this list followed the nomenclature of any particular author, but for the sake of 
reference the numbers of the genera and species in Jenyns’ Brit, Vertehr, Animals, are prefixed 
in every case. 
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