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SELECTED POETRY. 
THE TYRANT OF THE FOREST. 
Far in the South, where vast Maragnon flows. 
And boundless forests unknown wilds enclose, 
Vine-tangled shores and suffocating woods, 
Parch’d up with heat, or drown’d with pouring floods; 
Where each extreme alternately prevails. 
And Nature sad their ravages bewails; 
Lo ! high in air above those trackless wastes, 
With Spring’s return the King-bird hither hastes; 
Coasts the fam’d gulf, and from his height explores 
Its thousand streams, its long indented shores, 
Its plains immense, wide opening on the day. 
Its lakes and isles, where feather’d millions play; 
All tempt not him : till gazing from on high, 
Columbia’s regions wide below him lie ; 
There end his wanderings and his wish to roam, 
There lie his native woods, his fields, his home ; 
Down, circling, he descends from azure heights. 
And on a full-blown Sassafras alights. 
Fatigued and silent, for a while he views 
His old-frequented haunts, and shades recluse; 
Sees brothers, comrades, every hour arrive,— 
Hears, humming round, the tenants of the hive 4 
Love fires his breast—he woos, and soon is blest. 
And in the blooming orchard builds his nest. 
CHAPTER OF MISCELLANIES, 
ZOOLOGY. 
Additional Localities for Amarae. —Mr. Buist has sent me specimens of 
the following Amarce , all of which were taken near St. Andrews —Amara 
acuminata (and near Pittenween, Fifeshire), A. trimalis , A. Icevis , A. plebeia , A. 
puncticollis , Ryl. (one specimen), A. infima (one specimen). —Peter Rylands, 
Bewsey House , Warrington , June 13, 1839. 
Nidification of the Starling. —In the interior of the weathercock of the 
Abbey tower, Tewkesbury, is a Starling’s nest, with five young birds, being 
