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taste than brutes, by stating that the papillae of the tongue, pharynx, palate, &c., 
are proportionally larger and more numerous in brutes; that, to increase the 
surface of taste, many brutes have the membrane of their palate furrowed and 
sprinkled with a multitude of nervous papillae ; and that the eating apparatus is 
in most of them larger than in Man; that the Dog, Bear, and Monkey, have their 
tongue covered with as fine a membrane as that of Man ; and that the enjoyment 
of taste appears the greatest and most enduring of all in many, as they are eating 
and ruminating almost constantly while awake.-— Elliotson’s Physiology. 
A Sporting Cow.—The Galewood hounds met at Ford Common on Monday 
last, and found a Fox somewhere in that neighbourhood, which after a severe run 
was fortunate enough to baffle all his foes among the complicated mazes of Tin- 
dal-House Wood. As the hunting party went galloping along by the village of 
Etal, a white cow, belonging to Mr. Smith, of Etal Mill, feeding in a court-yard 
with two or three others, on hearing the blast of the horn which the whipper-in 
was sounding to warn in some of the stray Dogs which had been left out of the 
chase, became so elated that she commenced scampering in good earnest, and 
cleared the gate of the yard in gallant style. She next went boldly at another 
gate which opposed her, but missing her footing, she alighted on it with her 
breast, and smashed it to the ground. The gate that she leaped over success¬ 
fully was upwards of five feet two inches.— Berwick Advertiser. 
A Zoological Jonathanism. —A Cat, belonging to a widow, sat lately upon 
half-a-dozen Duck's eggs, and continued her attentions until the eggs were 
hatched; and there is now to be seen a fine brood of six young ones, half Duck 
and half Cat, having Duck’s heads and Cat’s tails; and, what is still more won¬ 
derful, they mew and quack alternately.— American paper. 
Golden Eagle shot near FIolderness. —A specimen of this rare and noble 
bird has recently been killed near Holderness.— Patrick Hawkridge, Scarbo¬ 
rough ,, August 7, 1837. 
The Buzzard ( Falco buteo) near Scarborough. —This species is found in 
the plantations above the mere near Scarborough, but is not numerous.— Id. 
The Marsh Harrier ( Falco oeruginosus ) near Scarborough. —The Marsh 
Harrier has occasionally been shot on the swampy moors near this town; and 
specimens of it are in the Scarborough Museum.— Id. 
An Entomological Rhapsody. —Oh! my dear friends (continued Mr. Rum- 
shaw), could you but once become embued with the philosophy of Entomology, 
you would, like me, revel in its delights from early dawn till dusk of evening,— 
with me would you entomologise in the clear cool morning, when the Swallows 
are similarly occupied,—with me roam, like the Ant-eater, o’er the hills in the 
heat of a noon-day sun,—with me, I say, would you follow the Nightjar in its 
nocturnal rambles, admiring Nature everywhere pregnant with Beetles. Oh! 
