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of a chesnut-brown (rarely entirely black or light brown), nearly red 

 colour. In several specimens the flourishes are as large and as well- 

 developed as in the finest eggs of Uria troile. Bluish grey markings 

 lie deeper iu the substance of the shell, and sometimes little con- 

 spicuous in the whitish specimens. They generally correspond to the 

 external spots in size, form and situation, and appear rarely as 

 larger clouds in dotted eggs. One specimen is uniform greenish 

 white. Reddish eggs held against a light are transparent yellowish 

 green, greenish ones bluish green. The granulation is strong, ^coarse, 

 longitudinal, with rounded pores and deep pits." — Baron R. K. von 

 Warthausen, on the Nidification of certain Birds in North-Eastern 

 Africa, Ibis, 1860, pp. 127, 128.] 



It may be observed that these three species are not noticed in any 

 systematic work on the Birds of Great Britain. 



I have only to add that I most earnestly solicit additions and cor- 

 rections, which will be published from time to time when sufficient to 

 occupy sixteen pages, printed uniformly with the body of the work. 

 These sheets of supplementary matter will be given to the subscribers 

 to the ' Zoologist.' 



Edward Newman. 



Notes on the Mammalia of Norfolk (continued from S. S. 152). — 

 Weasel. — I have just added two varieties of this species to my collection, which I 

 am informed were obtained in this county several years since. The first is of a pale 

 yellowish brown, and the second an entire pure white: this latter is, I believe, a 

 great rarity; at all events, this is the only instance I have heard or seen of its 

 occurrence. 



Oitcr. — Notwithstanding the mild weather we experienced during the past season, 

 this species appeared rather abundant. Several instances of its occurrence passed 

 within my notice, which I will now mention. A female killed near the River Waveney, 

 in the parish of Gillin^ham, near Beccles, in January. Iu the early part of February 

 two very young examples were obtained. A most splendid old male, weighing 27 lbs., 

 accidentally trapped himself iu a bow-net, set for the purpose of catching pike, in a 

 dyke adjoining Ormesby Broad, near Great Yarmouth, attracted thither, of course, by 

 its finny prey. I particularly noticed the chin, lips and throat of this specimen, which 

 were perfectly white, the usual hue of those parts being of a dirty white or grayish 

 brown, according to age. In March two examples, male and female, were received 

 from the neighbourhood of our Broads, the former of which was an extremely fine otter, 

 weighing just 30 lbs. In April a female was killed on Surlingham Broad : two young 

 ones were also obtained from the same locality ; a half-grown female killed at Burton 

 Turf. Bespecling my previous remarks on this species feeding on vegetable substances 



