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easily secured.— Doncaster Gazette , Feb. 2. [We conceive that want of water, 
an d not the severity of the frost, affected these birds.— Ed.] 
Cabbage Butterfly abroad in February. —On the 3rd of February, during 
a severe frost, we noticed a specimen of the common Cabbage Butterfly ( Fontia 
brassiere .)— Ed. 
Pheasants and Pheasant-hunting in Norfolk.-— -The Pheasant is very 
abundant in the several preserves in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, and is 
the cause of serious frays between the poachers and the gamekeepers. I consider 
the preserves a curse to these counties, as nothing tends to demoralize the 
poorer classes so much as holding out such tempting inducements for them to 
pursue these unlawful depredations. It is no unusual circumstance to see, in 
some of the extensive parks, several hundreds of these birds out feeding at the 
same time.—J. D. Salmon, Godaiming , Surrey , Dec . 23, 1837- 
Frozen Otter. —On Saturday week (Jan. 20) Captain Maxey found a fine 
Otter frozen fast in the ice in the canal, and presented the specimen to the Swan¬ 
sea Institution.— Doncaster Gazette , Feb. 2. 
Notes on Tetracnemus diversicornis , Westwood. —This insect is figured in 
the Magazine of Natural History , p. 258, with four branches to the antennae. 
When I first saw it I thought it was the same as my Ceraphron ramicornis, 
(Boehm. ?), being very similar, as far as antennae go; but mine is more like Mr. 
Curtis’s figure of C. Holidayi, but that has only three branches to the antennae, 
and is scarcely more than half its size. I took my specimen on Knighton Heath, 
near Dorchester, Aug. 11, 1835, and Mr. Westwood’s T. diversicornis on Oak, 
in Coombe Wood, July 3, 1835.—J. C. Dale, Glanvilles Wootton , Dorsetshire^ 
July 9, 1837. 
Capture of the Eagle Owl ( Strix bubo ) off Flamborough PIead. —A 
specimen of this rare British bird was captured off that celebrated headland 
Flamborough Head, after alighting upon the mast of a sloop sailing by, and was 
with difficulty secured, after it had actually pinned down with its powerful 
talons the cabin boy, who had been sent aloft to seize it.— -Patrick Hawkridge, 
Scarborough , Aug. 7, 1837. 
Birds observed near Doncaster during the Frost. —-* * * But than these 
rarer objects have presented themselves to the notice of the lover of Ornithology, 
Many of them have fallen before the deadly tube of the gunner; but all of the: 
have been observed in this neighbourhood:—The Bittern, the Dun Diver, ti. 
Goosander, the Smew, the Green Sandpiper, the Tufted Duck, the Pochard, ' 
Scaup Duck, the Shieldrake, the Crossbill, the Crested Grebe, the Barnacle Go 
the Sanderling, the Boyston or Norway Crow, &c. A pied Partridge has 
been shot ; and a few days ago four white Swans were seen passing over Be 
by Mr. Crawshaw, of Warms worth.— Doncaster Gazette , Feb. 2. 
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