3822 The Zoologist — January, 1874. 



In coutinuation of these "Notes on the Spitsbergen Fauna," 

 lists of the Articulata, Mollusca, Coelenterata and other animals 

 will be published elsewhere. The Flora will be dealt with in a 

 similar manner. The plants are being determined at Kew and in 

 Sweden. Whatever has to be said about the Geology may as well 

 be disposed of here. The only original observation of any interest 

 made by me was that the strata of the north-easterly extremity of 

 Hope Island are identical with the shales containing fragments of 

 plants, of Green Harbour. We observed nothing else whatever, but 

 what Prof. Nordenskjold and his colleagues had already made out. 

 The extensive mineralogical collection which some of the daily 

 papers stated we had formed, unhappily existed only in the reporter's 

 imagination. Before we sailed from England I was asked at Cam- 

 bridge to leave the mineralogy of the mainland of Spitsbergen alone, 

 and to devote my time to plants and animals. After they have been 

 determined, the specimens will be deposited at the Kew, British, 

 Cambridge and other Museums, so far as series of duplicates admit 

 of several sets of them being made up. 



A. E. Eaton. 



Croydon, October 13, 1873. 



Ornithological Notes from West Sussex. 

 By W. Jeffery, jun., Esq. 



Glaucous Gull. — January, 1873. As noticed on other parts of 

 the coast, the glaucous gull paid us a visit: on the 15th I saw an 

 immature bird in the flesh at Chichester, which was killed at Selsey. 

 Two specimens had been obtained for the Chichester Museum a 

 few days before : these 1 saw after they had been stuffed. I also 

 heard of a fourth specimen obtained, and of others seen, but not 

 killed. These appear all to have been in immature plumage. An 

 adult female, now in my collection, was killed at Selsey on the loth 

 of January, 1870. 



Hawfinch. — During the month of February hawfinches were met 

 with in considerable numbers in many parts, where they appear to 

 have been almost unknown before. 



Oystercatcher. — I think the oystercatcher would have been better 

 named " cockle-catcher," or rather " opener." I have before found 

 cockles in the stomach of this bird, and on the 22nd of February 

 the stomach of one, on dissection, proved to contain as many as 



