2988 TuE ZooLocist—Marcu, 1872. 
I luckily thought of the French name “ plongeon,” which satisfied 
him immediately. This bird was rather a large specimen, weighing 
eight pounds and a quarter. I was once much amused when 
carrying a glaucous gull through the town, on overhearing the 
names given to the bird by different persons—one saying it was a 
pigeon, another a wild duck, one a shag, and another a woodcock ; 
but, to crown the whole, just before I reached home, a little boy 
calling to his companion, exclaimed, “ Look here, Bill, that gentle- 
man has shot a geese!” Whilst on this subject, I may mention an 
instance of the fierceness and pugnacity of the redthroated diver, 
which came under my own observation. Having heard that a 
person in Plymouth had a diver confined alive in a box, I imme- 
diately went to buy it in order to set it at liberty; but the instant 
the man raised the lid out struck the diver at his eyes, lacerating 
one severely. However, I secured my bird, carried it down to the 
sea, and had the pleasure of seeing it dive away, as if nothing had 
happened. 
Redwings.—Strange to say, I too observed the large flight of 
redwings on the Ist of November, mentioned by Mr. Mathew in his 
“Notes.” On the Tothill Road, near Plymouth, the hedges, trees 
and fields were quite alive with them, but I did not see any 
fieldfares. 
J. GATCOMBE. 
Durnford Street, Stonehouse, Devon, 
February 6, 1872. 
Notes on the Gouliot Caves in the Island of Sark. 
By the Rev. F. A. WALKER, M.A. 
THOUGH several years have elapsed since I visited the Gouliot 
Caves, the impression that they, and the wonderful marine produc- 
tions which they contain, created, has never been effaced. Owing 
to the fact that the entrance to these caverns is situate at the 
extremity of a headland, the tide scarcely ever, except during the 
equinoxes, recedes from the opening sufficiently to admit of ingress. 
The opening of the first cave which we visited, and the largest, is 
about fifteen feet in height. Inside is a large rocky chamber, some 
sixty feet from roof to floor, and great boulders piled up within. 
As the sea surrounds these places on two sides, on proceeding to 
the further end I obtained a very pretty view of the cliffs and sea; 
