CONTENTS. 
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situation in determining their geography;number found in Devon,— 
want of attention in other neighbourhoods even greater than here.— 
Radiata,—number found in Devon.—Some species represented by 
similar forms in distant localities in one country.—Our physical 
situation and conditions determine the extent of our Fauna.— 
Suggestions for the better framing of provincial lists of animals. 
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PART III. 
Remarks on numerous subjects of Natural History , but more 
particularly on Birds. —Description of a new kind of Mouse.—The 
CaryophyIlea of South Devon, separated from Ellis’s Caryophyllea 
cyathus.—Observations on the nature of Sponges.—Notice of a 
peculiar faculty in Man and certain Animals, enabling us and them 
to take any required course as regards the cardinal points.— 
Accidental ecpnomy in nature, distinguished from intentional 
economy;—those animals which exercise this directing faculty.— 
The Cirl Bunting, its habits.—The Laws of dependance in Nature; 
uses of the Molluscs in the economy of nature; other instances.— 
The Hirundines as noticed in South Devon,—Swallows, migrations 
of;—Martins, migrations of;—Sand Martins ; torpidity.—Natural 
abodes of the Hirundines,—Cornish and Devon Ornithology, its 
peculiarities.—Concord and discord as observed in the tribe of 
birds, — aggressions, attachments, associations, congregating.— 
Songs of birds: general expressions : sources of these,—phenome¬ 
na of song dependent on the peculiarities of our climate;— 
autumnal and brumal songsters in South Devon illustrate by the 
times they select for singing how greatly weather operates on their 
spirits in occasioning the utterance of their notes;—this rule 
however notinvariable;—winter notes of other birds not songsters;— 
premature nestling,—on what dependant;—very late nestling.— 
Description of a new kind of Yole,—its marks of distinction from 
others,—the Meadow-mouse characterized.—The Motacilke in 
South Devon.—Grey Wagtail,—its movements,—its food,—occasi¬ 
onally stays the summer;—Yellow Wagtail,—its movements, &c.— 
Pied Wagtail,—its movements, &c.—Remarks on the Long-eared 
Bat, and on Bats generally.—The Crossbill, its visits to us, and 
habits.—The Woodlark, its habits, notes, &c.—Honey made from 
heath and thyme.—The Hedgehog, its habits, hybernation, &c.— 
the means of escape from danger and observation resorted to by 
animals.—The Squirrel, its habits,—habits of a tame individual,— 
skeleton of.—The Dormouse, its resorts, habits, hybernation, &c.— 
Butterflies, temporary torpor of some kinds.—Newt, hybernation 
of, &c.—House-flies, torpor and reanimations of,—Bats, revivis- 
cence of in winter.—Earthworms, their torpor.—Slugs, their 
torpor.—Blackcap, its migration, food, &c.—Oysters killed by 
frost.—The Crow, its habits.—Destruction of animals, remarks 
on;—the Sea Urchin, the SlowWorm &c.—Frogs and Toads, notes 
on.—Tortoise, facts relating to its hybernation.—Moles, their 
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