3446 The Zoologist— March, 1873. 



kittiwake. Phalaropes are rarely seen on our coasts after October; 

 indeed only two instances have come under my own particular 

 notice within the past thirty years. 



Jan. 11. Saw another immature glaucous gull and an abundance 

 of shags and kittiwakes. One of the shags caught a large " father- 

 lasher" or "bullhead," which in passing down the bird's gullet 

 seemed to twist round, forming a large lump at the back of its 

 neck. These long-continued gales have reduced the poor kitti- 

 wakes to a miserable condition : our harbours are full of them ; 

 many are daily knocked down with oars, sticks, or stones, when 

 settling in the water near, or flying over, the quays ; some have 

 been picked up dead or exhausted even in the streets, and I am 

 sorry to add that hundreds have been wantonly shot. It seems 

 strange that kittiwakes should so soon succumb to weather that 

 hardly appears to have any effect on other gulls. 



Razorbills, Sfc. — Jan. 14. Saw an adult glaucous gull again. 

 On the 15th the weather was particularly calm and mild. Thrushes, 

 blackbirds, robins and other species singing beautifully at Mount 

 Edgcumbe. Saw a small party of razorbills, which 1 was very 

 glad of, not having observed any since the sad mortality among 

 them last year. At this season there are generally large flocks to 

 be met with in the Sound and outside the breakwater, consisting 

 almost entirely of old birds, with well-developed bills. 



Jan. 18. Observed two glaucous gulls flying in the harbour, and 

 on the 27th heard missel thrushes singing. 



Black Guillemot and Blackthroated Diver. — Jan. 28. Examined 



a nice specimen of the black guillemot in its pretty marbled winter 



plumage, also a blackthroated diver, both of which were killed at 



Falmouth on the previous day. In the stomach of the guillemot 



I found the remains of fish, and some fine sea-sand, but the 



stomach of the diver contained nothing but sand and a few small 



stones. The black gui^emot is but rarely seen on the coast of 



Devon and Cornwall. Within the last two months I have found 



titmice and greenfinches very plentiful in our gardens. 



John Gatcombe. 

 8, Lower Durnford Street, Stonehouse, Plymouth. 



Enormons Fossil Ungulate— On Monday last, in the first of his 

 Huuterian lecture:- for this year, Prof. Flower drew special attention to the 



