The celebrated Marmaduke Tunstall, Esq. a most indefatigable Naturalist, who lived towards the latter part of the preceding century, has stated, that two pair of these birds made their nests and laid eggs in the orange trees of a Menagery at Holderness, in Yorkshire, but observes at the same time, the eggs were unproductive. Mr. Tunstall, as a Collector, was the great rival of Sir Ashton Lever, and of authority unquestionable, and this circumstance tends to shew that it might be yet possible to rear these very beautiful birds in this country. Some authors have presumed upon the authority of Albin, that this species extends to China. There can be very little doubt that the figure in the third volume of Albin’s plate, denominated the China Bulfinch, is intended for this bird. Albin assures us that he saw the bird he figured in the possession of a curious gentlemen, who told him he had received it from China. In the warmer parts of America, which these birds, as before observed, inhabit, they occur sometimes in vast flocks; it does not appear that they are of a shy or timid disposition, yet it is said they are seldom seen near habitable places, and never in any considerable numbers together. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: _8_ _London. Published as the Act Directs, by E. Donovan, June 1, 1822._ ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONCHOLOGY. PLATE VIII. BUCCINUM HARPA var TESTUDO TORTOISESHELL HARP BUCCINUM. UNIVALVE. GENERIC CHARACTER. Shell spiral, gibbous: aperture ovate, (generally) terminating in a short canal, leaning to the right, with a retuse beak or projection: pillar lip expanded. * _Detrita_, pillar lip apparently worn flat. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Shell with equal longitudinal and distinct mucronate ribs: pillar lip smooth. BUCCINUM HARPA: testa costis æquilibus longitudinalibus distinctis mucronatis, columella lævigata. _Linn. Syst. Nat. 10. p. 7. 38. n. 400._—_Mus. Lud. Ulr. 609. n. 261._ BUCCINUM HARPA: testa varicibus[5] æqualibus longitudinalibus distinctis mucronatis: columella lævigata. _Gmel. Linn. Syst. Nat. T. 1. p. 6. 3482. n. 47._ BUCCINUM TESTUDO. _Soland. MSS._ HARPA. _Rumpf. Must. 32. f. K. L. M._ HARPA NOBILIS _Argenv. Conch. t. 17. f. D._ * * * * *