3338 THE ZooLoGist—DECEMBER, 1872. 
Cyslophora cristata (Hooded Seal). Inhabits North Atlantic. A 
young specimen has been taken in the River Orwell; at the mouth 
of the Thames; and at the Island of Oleron, west coast of France, 
but I greatly doubt if it had not escaped from some ship coming 
from North America; there is no doubt of the determination of the 
species. The one caught on the River Orwell, 29th June, 1847, is 
in the Museum of Ipswich, and was described by Mr. W. B. Clarke, 
on the 14th August, 1847, in 4to, with a figure of the seal and skull. 
The one taken on the Isle d’Oleron, is in the Paris Museum, and 
is figured, with the skull, in Gervais, Zool. and Paleont. France. 
t. 42, and is called Phoca Isidorei, by Lesson, in the Rev. Zool. 
1843, 256. The young is very like that of Pagophilus greenlandicus, 
but is immediately known from it by being hairy between the 
nostrils, and by the grinders being only plated and not lobed on 
the surface. 
J. E. Gray. 
British Museum, November 12, 1872. 
British Heronries.—Mr. Harting, in his interesting account of British 
Heronries, in the October number of the ‘ Zoologist,’ states, under the 
heading “ Yorkshire,” that there is a herovry at Hutton Cranswick, near 
Beverley. I never heard of its existence, but, to make sure of the fact, 
wrote to a friend who lives near Cranswick, and he replies ;—‘ Mr. Harting 
is quite wrong in stating that there are now any heronries in the Kast 
Riding. There certainly is not one at Hutton Cranswick. There was one 
at Scorbro’ some eight or ten years ago, but the birds have been destroyed 
year by year, and I do not think a single pair are now left. They are very 
destructive amongst trout, and the Driffield Angling Club give a reward of 
three shillings for every bird that is shot or trapped, and I am glad to say 
we are not now troubled much with them. At Boynton (Sir G. Cholmley’s) 
there are yet, I believe, a few herons to be seen.” I have not heard of the 
heronry at Swanland Hall, near Hull. A few herons are occasionally to be 
seen on Hornsea Mere, but whether they nest there I cannot say, but should 
think it doubtful— William Bethell; Rise, Hull. 
Great Auk.—In a recent number of the ‘ American Naturalist,’ I see 
mention made of a great auk having been taken on the coast of Labrador in 
November, 1870, and recently sold to a naturalist in France for two hundred 
dollars, who is to send it to Austria. I suppose you have heard of this 
specimen.—G. F’. Morcom, in a letter to Mr. Gatcombe. 
[I shall be greatly obliged to any correspondent who will investigate this, 
and, if possible, supply any additional information. --Hdward Newman.] 
