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LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. 
u Florigraphia Britannica , or, Engravings and Descriptions of the Flowering 
Plants and Ferns of Britain, will be continued in March, 1839.” [We have 
received this notice without any knowledge on our part of the author or publisher 
of the work alluded to.— Ed.] —Mrs. J. C. Loudon is publishing a volume 
entitled,— The Ladies Flower-Garden of Ornamental Annuals , to be completed 
in 15 or 16 4to. Nos.— Natural History and Illustrations of the British Salmo- 
nidce , by Sir William Jardine, Bart., F.R.S.E., will shortly be commenced, to 
appear in Nos. 
CHAPTER OF MISCELLANIES . 
ZOOLOGY. 
Kestril Falcon near Scarborough. —This bird is somewhat numerous on 
the rocky parts of our coast, where it breeds, to the great annoyance of the Rock 
Pigeon, which, well knowing its neighbours habits, does not consider it a desirable 
friend to watch over the cradle of its young during the absence of the parents. 
It has been with some a matter of doubt whether the Kestril does either 
pursue or prey upon other birds. To settle this question, I may state that one 
in my possession was shot by mj^self in the act of striking a Starling, after a 
smart chase.— Patrick PIawkridge, Scarborough , Aug . 7, 1837* 
Length of the Sheep’s Life. —In regard to the number of years to which our 
domestic animals would attain were they allowed to live until they died of “ mere 
old age,” is a question, we believe, not very accurately determined by naturalists. 
The following account of a Sheep is, to our own knowledge, perfectly correct. 
The daughter of a gentleman in the county of Fife, left this country for India 
many years ago, and previously to leaving home she made a pet of a motherless 
lamb. This animal was allowed to go unmolested in the lawn; it was old when 
the lady returned to Britain, and died about the beginning of last month, in its 
sixteenth year—that is, within a few weeks of sixteen years old.— Berwick 
Advertiser , March 9, 1839. 
Acosmetia Morrisii. —I took my specimen of this insect in the dusk of the 
evening, at Charmouth, Dorsetshire, July 8, 1835, in a path in a Wheat-field 
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