SKETCHES OF EUROPEAN ORNITHOLOGY. 
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able to birds. Boys catch Bats by throwing the prickly heads into the air. 
These hooked points tend to the dispersion of the seed, by adhering to the coats 
of animals, &c. Cows and Goats eat it. Sheep and Horses refuse it. Swine 
are not fond of it. The larvse of the Ghost Moth ( Hepialus Humuli) feed upon 
the roots, and the larvae of the Mottled Orange Moth upon the stems: within 
which the chrysalis may be found about the month of August, especially in 
stunted specimens. 
SKETCHES OF EUROPEAN ORNITHOLOGY. 
Gould’s “ Birds of Europe,” Part XVI. 
By Neville Wood, Esq. 
(Continued from p. 359 of this Volume.) 
Since the appearance of The Naturalist ion July, we have received The Analyst 
for the same month, and are glad to find that the articles on Mr. Gould’s work, 
commenced by ourselves, will be continued in that Journal, as we consider it due 
to its subscribers that the series should not be left unfinished. The paper in The 
Analyst for July, however, appears to be a mere condensed analysis, and is 
probably not written by a practical naturalist. At all events the errors it con¬ 
tains have an awkward appearance; the same attention is paid to the most 
common as to the rarer species, and important particulars are often passed ,in 
silence. Our aim is to impart to the student, and to our readers generally, a 
correct knowledge of the rarer British birds, and of exotic species, conceiving that 
Sparrows and Sparrow Hawks must be familiar to any one tvho desires to learn 
their history. We wish, moreover, by interspersing remarks of our own, and 
those of other authors, among those which we distinctly acknowledge, by marks of 
quotation, to be obtained from our author, to render the papers still more useful, less 
servile, and more satisfactory both to Mr. Gould and to our subscribers. There¬ 
fore, while applauding the spirit which has induced the present Editor of The 
Analyst to continue the critical articles in his Journal, yet, for the reasons above 
cited, as well as on account of the desire expressed to that effect by several of our 
most esteemed correspondents, we shall, as before proposed (p. 353), conclude the 
present series in the pages of The Naturalist , 
Part XYI.— Gorget Calliope, Calliope Lathamii ,—Calliope, Fr .—Our au¬ 
thor has constituted a new generic group for this species, which appears to hold 
an intermediate station between the Thrushes and the Night ingales, having many 
points in common with the members of both those genera. u In naming this 
