4258 The Zoologist — December, 1874. 



able, from its dentition, to place it amongst the Chaetodons (in 

 which genus are two or three having somewhat similar spinous 

 dorsals), I think it is most nearly allied to Pimelepterus, Lacepede, 

 described by Cuvier (Anim. Kingd. ed. of Griffith and Hamilton 

 Smith, 1834, vol. x. p. 177). Unfortunately, the books at my dis- 

 posal here do not suffice for me to say whether it is a known species 

 of this genus, but I feel tolerably safe in saying it has never yet 

 been described as a British fish, and unless you, or some other 

 person better informed than myself, can convict me of error, 

 I should propose to call it Pimelepterus Cornubieusis. Its shape 

 suggests a slow swimmer, and the size of its eye suggests that it is 

 accustomed to deep water. 



I have already hazarded a guess (S. S. 4242) that the green 

 turtle very recently captured in the same waters was a waif astray 

 from a recent wreck, but its occurrence so nearly about the time of 

 the arrival of this box with the fish in it is remarkable, especially 

 when we recollect that our shores here are undoubtedly washed 

 by currents which come, more or loss directly, from the Gulf of 

 Mexico, and that in our seas tropical and Mediterranean fish are 

 not uncommon, whilst large living turtle have been taken many 

 times before. 



Thomas Cornish. 



Penzance, October 14, 1874. 



Rare Birds at Eastbonrne. — I have been fortunate in obtaining during 

 this mouth a reeve and a dusky redshank ; also a black tern and a little 

 stint, — all these birds being considered rare in this neighbourhood. — A. J. 

 Clarh-Kennedy; Eastbourne, September 21, 1874. 



moulting Frcali in a Robin. — Mr. Wigley, an intelligent owner of cage- 

 birds, living in the Kent Road, has obligingly brought a favourite robin for me 

 to examine, because he observed something very peculiar in its appearance 

 after its autumnal moult : he has had this robin four years, and of course 

 has nursed it through four moults ; three of these have been conducted 

 decently and in order, but the fourth has been exceptional ; the two outside 

 feathers on each side of the tail having moulted pure white, the others 

 being reproduced of the usual colour. The red of the breast is of unusual 

 brilliancy ; the belly very white, and the usual band of bluish gray which 

 surrouuds the red of the breast is very distinct, but in no part except the 

 tail is it other than a normally coloured bird in good plumage. "We are 

 accustomed to see white, or partially white, outside feathers in the tails 



