MEDITERRANEAN NOTES 187 



" Many porpoises, two sharks, and two turtles seen. 

 Vast numbers of small, snake-like fishes drifting past us 

 all day." 



November 1878 to May 1879 



Plymouth 



" November i st. Arrived in Glowworm at Plymouth 

 about 1 1 last night, after a fiir run from Lyming- 

 ton Roads, which anchorage we left under steam and 

 sailed about 8 a.m. yesterday. Saw some gannets* and 

 a great many guillemots on our way. Fine, bright, 

 frosty morning. I hear of three inches of snow at 

 Lilford, and they sav there has been some on Dartmoor, 

 and that woodcocks have come in in some numbers. 

 T. shot the only one seen of this species in Oxon Wood 

 on Monday last." 



" November 2nd. Fine moonlight night with slight 

 haze, just the weather for woodcocks on migration." 



" November T,^d. A common gull (L. canus) has 

 for some years frequented the garden of the Vicarage 

 at Ivybridge, where Mrs. G feeds him, and has 



* The Gannet {Sula hissana) also called the Solan Goose, breeds, 

 as is generally known, in great numbers on the Bass Rock and on 

 Ailsa Craig. It is not a ' goose,' but is allied to the cormorants 

 and the pelicans. It is only a winter visitor to the Southern Atlantic. 



