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longer and more of a " squeal," if I may use the term. A coast- 

 guard man told me that he had shot many from time to time from 

 the cliffs. On the steep slopes of Mort Point I observed a great 

 many wheatears,-! expect just on the eve of departure,-and I 

 also disturbed a large flock of curlews. Nearly the whole of Mort 

 Point is one large rabbit-warren. 



9th. Just as I was about to leave Barnstaple, Mr. Rickards 

 hearing of my being in the town, kindly called on me at the house' 

 of my friend, the Rev. W. S. Hore, bringing with him, for my 

 inspection, the two pomarine skuas, of which he gave such an 

 interesting account in the November number of the ' Zoologist' 

 (S. S. 4240), and killed near Northam on the very day I was there. 

 I was much gratified at being enabled to examine two such rarJ 

 birds in the flesh. Mr. Rowe, gunmaker and animal preserver, of 

 Barnstaple, informed me that many little stints, terns, knots, and 

 some phalaropes, had been seen in the river during the month, and 

 he showed me a young black tern lately killed in the neighbour- 

 hood. 



23rd. A purple sandpiper was killed on the Breakwater ; rather 

 early for that species. 



24th. Examined a young pomarine skua, in the flesh, which had 

 been obtained at Altarnun, Cornwall, many miles inland. 



Swallows and martins do not seem to have lingered so long with 

 us this season. The last of either species noticed by me was about 

 the middle of October : last year I obtained a ferr up to November. 

 A friend of mine who paid a visit to the Scilly Islands early in the 

 autumn told me that he found the rocks frequented by immense 

 flocks of oystercatchers and a great many turnstones. 



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8, Lower Durnford Street, Stonehouse, Plymouth. 



Pimeleptenis Cornuhiensis, a supposed New Fish, at Penzance. 

 By Thomas Cornish, Esq. 



There was taken in this Bay on Friday last, the 9th October, 

 a fish which I believe to be altogether new in the British Seas,' 

 but the mode of its capture makes it doubtful whether it can be' 

 properly considered a British fish. The crew of the trawler ' Ida,' 

 Captain Brown, when about six miles off land here, saw something 

 afloat in the water. Nearing it, they found it was wreck covered 



