. The Sportsman's cabinet, and town and country magazine. arded tits, and have observed that thestomach is exceedingly strong and mus-cular ; the stomachs of the tits may al-most be called membranaceous ; that ofthe shrike is quite so. I have oftenbeen astonished to perceive hard seeds,grains of corn, &c., in the almost mem-branaceous stomach of the oxeye, whichdiffers so much from the muscular giz-zards of the buntings and others whichsubsist on such food. Amongst otherthings I have noticed small snails in thestomach of the oxeye. Are you aware that many hard bill birds use the throator swall
. The Sportsman's cabinet, and town and country magazine. arded tits, and have observed that thestomach is exceedingly strong and mus-cular ; the stomachs of the tits may al-most be called membranaceous ; that ofthe shrike is quite so. I have oftenbeen astonished to perceive hard seeds,grains of corn, &c., in the almost mem-branaceous stomach of the oxeye, whichdiffers so much from the muscular giz-zards of the buntings and others whichsubsist on such food. Amongst otherthings I have noticed small snails in thestomach of the oxeye. Are you aware that many hard bill birds use the throator swallow as a pouch, or reservoir forfood? A sparrow that I shot a fewmornings since had its throat greatlydistended with grains of corn. Flight of the Albatross.—Howpowerful must be the wing muscles ofbirds which sustain themselves in thesky for many hours together ! The greatAlbatross, with wings extending four-teen feet or more, is seen in the stormysolitudes of the Southern ocean, accom-panying ships for whole days, withoutever resting on the Town and Country Magazine. 33 ( Continued from vol. I, p. return immediately, or we should be in great danger from thesetting in of the tide. We at Hrst thought the boy was playingoff a joke upon us; but a survey of our situation immediatelyconvinced us of the earnestness and good intentions of the lad,who approached us and shewed us the road by which to make thesafest and speediest retreat. We proceeded along the upper part of the beach till wereached the place where the fishers were employed. These wereyouths, who, with very ordinary tackle indeed (merely a smallstick with a thread and bended pin) were catching small fish, whichare very numerous among the crags, and which, it seems, bitevery freely towards the dusk of the evening. These fish wereabout as long as ones finger, and consisted of young cod, and theyoung of other fish, which, I suppose, seek shelter in shallow water,and particularly among the crags, from that who
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