aa Mr. H. E. Strickland's Notes on Mr. BlyWs Cenomyce ccespititia. Not common. sparassa. Common, alcicornis. 1 I join these two together, as I confess my-endiviarfolia . J self unable to distinguish them ; the tufts of hair at the edges of the frond (the main difference depended on) appear to me not sufficient to keep them distinct. In a specimen of alcicornis, which I have from the Unio Itineraria of Strasbourg, and which, according to the character of the plant, ought to have marginal tufts of hairs, I can distinguish none. If the true al-cicornis always has tufts of hairs, I have never gathered it. The plant without them, and which I suppose therefore would be called endivicefolia, is not common about Barmouth, though occasionally met with. It grows in great beauty upon the rocks at Lydstep in Pembrokeshire, but rare in fruit. â– • cervicornis. I never met with this in so beautiful a state as at Llyn Howel. pyxidata. Common. verticillata. Scarce : rocks to the south of Gwastad-— fimhriata. Not common. radiata. Rhinog Fdch. cornuta. gracilis. filiformis. deformis. Not common. coccifera. hellidiflora. Moel DiflFws. Pycnothelia papillaria. Scarce : Gelli Rhud. VI. — Notes on Mr. Blyth's List of Birds from the vicinity of Calcutta. By H. E. Strickland_, M.A. The ' Annals of Natural History^ have seldom contained orni-tbological papers of greater value than that by Mr. E. Blyth in the Nos. for August and September of the present year. While ob-servations on the habits of the commonest British birds have been published and republished till the subject is quite exhausted,, we are wholly ignorant of the food, habits, nidification and anatomy of the majority of foreign species. The zoological treasures of India have been till within the last ten years most unaccountably neglected, and in many cases our knowledge on the subject was worse than none, it was incomplete and inaccurate. A better day has now dawned ; British officers in India have discovered that by studying the wonders of tropical nature they may get through the day more pleasantly than by indulging in indolence, and consequently the natural history of that country will ere long be as thoroughly investigated as that of the British Isles. The appointment of a well-qualified zoologist like Mr. Blyth,
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