Note on Birds in March.—
"On the 11th, the lesser pettychaps or chiff-chaff is sometimes heard, but is more commonly later. The stone-curlew appears about the same time. The jack-snipe and woodcock take their departure. The wheatear arrives about the 23rd or 25th, and the blackcap and redstart, in the southern counties, appear at the end of the month if the weather is very fine."—Van Voorst's Naturalists' Almanack, for 1843.
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Couch's Sea-bream.
The sparoid fishes are found to bear so considerable a resemblance each other in form and colour, and until very recent times have been so inadequately represented in figures, most of which have been taken from dried skins, in which all the distinguishing maiks of life and separation from one another have been lost,—that we need not
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