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compelled to disgorge its food. Although I have been sailing on the Thames the 

 whole summer these are the only two skuas I have seen. Is it not very unusual for 

 these birds to come so high up the river? — A. H. Smee. 



Sandwich Tern at Wliilby. — In the last week of August I had a fine male speci- 

 men of this tern given me by a friend, who had shot it on the beach between the 

 harbour and Keltleness. At the time it came into my possession the breast still retained 

 a decided rose-red tinge, which disappeared after a few days. Keble, the local bird- 

 stuffer, informed me that he bad never seen or heard of this species of tern occurring 

 previously on the Yorkshire coast, although he had lived at Whitby for the last 

 fifteen years, and most of the rare birds shot in the neighbourhood pass through his 

 hands. When at Mr. Keble's house he was busily engaged in setting up a young 

 specimen of the common seal, which had been shot on the sands close to the town. — 



Id. 



" The Wide-awake Tern." — To what species do the terns of which Dr. Collingwood 

 gives so interesting an account (Zool. S.S. 979) belong? — Edward R. Alston; Stock- 

 briggs, Lesmahagow, November 7, 1867. 



Little Gull at Flamborough Head, Iceland Gull in Orkney, and Tithys Redstart 

 at Minehead. — On the 23rd of October a little gull was killed near Flamborough 

 Head. On the 29th of October an Iceland gull, sent in the flesh from the Orkneys, 

 was found to contain several grains of barley in the stomach, no other remaius of food 

 being perceptible. On the 31st of October I saw a male Tithys redstart in a small 

 garden near the beach at Minehead, where it remained sitting on a low apple-tree till 

 driven away by another bird, which seemed to me to be a house sparrow. I visited the 

 locality two or three times afterwards, but could see no more of the redstart. — J. H. 

 Gurney ; November 6, 1867. 



Enormous Lobster. — I have just taken a lobster (Ilomarus vulgaris) three feet long, 

 which incredible statement I explain in this way: it measured one foot six inches 

 from rostrum to tail, over all, and its anterior pair of legs were each one foot six 

 inches long. It measured one foot two inches round the carapace ; the large claw was 

 ten inches in circumference and the smaller one seven inches. Its weight was 

 a trifle over nine pounds. I have seen a lobster with a larger claw, but never 

 altogether so large a specimen. — Thomas Cornish; Penzance, September 21, 1867. 



Gibbs' Spider Crab at Penzance. — I note the occurrence of Gibbs' spider crab 

 (Pisa Gibbsii) here on Thursday, the 3rd instant. The specimen is small, and of a 

 dirty white colour. It was caught in about eight fathoms water. — Id.; October 5, 

 1867. 



PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society. 

 November 4, 1867. — Professor Westwood, Vice-President, in the chair. 



Additions to the Library. 

 The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors: — 

 •Transactions of the Linnean Society,' Vol. xxv. part 3, and Index to Vols. i. — xxv. ; 



