[64] Zoologist, p. 4298.

[65] British Birds, iii. 477, (Ed. 2.)

[66] Dr Charlton, in the Trans. Tyneside Nat. Hist. Soc.

[67] Nat. Voy., ch. ix.

[68] Lecture; reported in the Athenæum for May 21, 1859.

[69] Nat. Voyage, ch. viii.

[70] Mag. Nat. Hist., ii. 322.

[71] From the Times of Jan. 24, 1861.

[72] The Oscillatoria is a genus of plants; it is a microscopic Alga of wire-like form belonging to the great Confervoid family, having the remarkable peculiarity of spontaneous and apparently voluntary motion.

[73] Latrobe's Alpenstock, p. 12.