I also learn from a friend that a beautiful specimen of the _ombre Chevalier_ (French Char) was taken out of the Rivington reservoir. About a thousand had been put there by me two years before. [10] Persons conversant with the habits of birds will readily comprehend me; for the sake of those who do not, I will just observe that the flight of all the Wagtails is very peculiar, being a succession of great leaps in the air (if I may be allowed the expression), which form a series of curves, the bird rising considerably at the commencement of each effort, and sinking again at the close. [11] The intrepid and unfortunate traveller Joseph Ritchie, who accompanied Captain Lyon's expedition to Fezzan, and died there in 1819. Mr. Ritchie was a native of Otley, and an intimate friend of Mr. Garnett and his brothers. The beautiful poem from which the quotation is taken is printed in Alaric Watts's "Poetical Album." [12] 1853.--I regret that in 1853, and for some years previous, we have not seen one. I fear they are extinct. The smaller kind are still numerous. [13] The male Par is an exception to this rule. [14] It appears to be a beautiful provision of Nature that mixture with water should increase the sphere of its action. Spallanzani found by actual experiment that three grains of the seed of a male frog might be diluted with a pint of water without destroying its stimulating power. See "Dissertations," vol. ii. p. 142, chap. 3, Ed. "Mag. Nat. History." [15] Mr. Thomson, of Primrose. [16] Assistant Keeper of Printed Books in the British Museum. Author of "Philological Essays," &c. [17] The toad, when going to take a bee, points for a second or two as beautifully as the best-trained pointer before it strikes with its tongue.