We shall, we trust, be pardoned for returning in this number, before we proceed onwards to Cuvier's works, to some omissions of old authors which have occurred.

The first of these additional quotations is from Scheuchzer's later work, published at Zurich in 1718, ‘Meteorologia et Oryctographia Helvetica,’ p. 336.

“Diluvian Birds.—Everybody can very easily conceive that all the birds, owing to their agility, could have escaped the waters of the Deluge, and it is therefore not to be wondered that even in the richest and best-assorted museums of arts and natural history, remains of the bird-kind are very seldom to be met with, or that they are, so to say, scarcer than a white raven. In Switzerland I have as yet found nothing; from the quarry of Oeningen I can show a well impressed bird's feather, which I have reproduced on page 14 of the Querel. Pisc.” This figure we give in our Plate IV. fig. 1.

The original passage follows below :—

“Aves Diluvianæ.—Es kan ein jeder ohnschwer begreifen, dass die Vögel, wegen ihrer Leichte, alle werden in denen Sündfluth-Wassern oben aufgeschwummen seyn, und sich desshalb nicht zu verwundern, wann auch in denen best-versehenen Kunst-und Naturalien-Kammern etwas von dem Vogel-Geschlecht überbliebenes so seltsam oder nock rarer ist als ein weisser Rab. In denen Schweitzerischen Landen habe noch nichts gefunden; aus den Oeningischen Steinbruch aber kan ich zeigen eine wol ausgedruckte Vogelfeder, welche habe abbilden lassen in Querel. Pisc, p. 14.”