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"1701. Elisabeth Daughter of Richard Jardine and Elisabeth his wife born October 7. and said to be baptized at a Private Congregation Novemb. 3d.
"1702. June 22. Miram the Son of Thomas Short and Mary his Wife said to be baptized at a Separate Congregation. Jane the Daughter of Richard Jardine and Elizabeth his Wife said to be baptized at a Separate Congregation Dec. 21.
"1703. John the Son of Alexander Jardine and Elisabeth his Wife said to be baptized at a Separate Congregation, Mar. 31.
"1705. Alexander the Son of Alexander Jardine and ... his Wife was as 'tis said baptized in a Separate Congregation July 1705.
"1706. John the Son of Alexander Jardine and Elisabeth his Wife said to be baptized at a Private Congregation Dec. 11.
"1707. Nov. 11. John the Son of Alexander and Elis. Jardine was said to be baptized in Separate Congregation.
"1710. Aug. 23. John ye Son of Bryan and Sarah Ellis was said to have been baptized in Separate Congregation.
"Nov. 15. Nath. ye Son of Alexander and Elisa Jardine was said to be baptiz'd in a Separate Congregation."
I have no recollection of having met with similar entries in any other Parish Register.
C. H. COOPER.
_Redwing's Nest_ (Vol. iii., p. 408.).--I think that upon further consideration C. J. A. will find his egg to be merely that of a blackbird. While the eggs of some birds are so constant in their markings that to see one is to know all, others--at the head of which we may place the sparrow, the gull tribe, the thrush, and the blackbird--are as remarkable for the curious variety of their markings, and even of the shades of their colouring. And every schoolboy's collection will show that these distinctions will occur in the same nest.
I also believe that there has been some mistake about the nest, for though, like the thrush, the blackbird coats the interior of its nest with mud, &c., it does not, like that bird, leave this coating exposed, but adds another lining of soft dried grass.
SELEUCUS.
_Champak_ (Vol. iii., p. 84.).--A correspondent, C. P. PH***., asks "What is Champak?" He will find a full description of the plant in Sir William Jones's "Botanical Observations on Select Indian Plants," vol. v. pp. 128-30. _Works_, ed. 1807. In speaking of it, he says:
"The strong aromatic scent of the gold-coloured Champac is thought offensive to the bees, who are never seen on its blossoms; but their elegant appearance on the black hair of the Indian women is mentioned by Rumphius; and both facts have supplied the Sanscrit poets with elegant allusions."
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