2540 The Zoologist — April, 1871. 



separated from it after flying for a short distance, and seemed 

 quite careless about rejoining. 



Turtle Dove. — An adult female was killed upon the beach at 

 Haroldsvvick on the 28th of September. Being somewhat ex- 

 hausted, as if from a long flight, it was easily approached. 



Longearecl Owl. — On the 3rd of November I procured a fine 

 pair of longeared owls in the garden. During the day they sat 

 close in the bushes, and when disturbed were rather difficult to 

 approach, not from their ability to perceive me so much as from 

 the impossibility of preventing my footsteps among the frosty 

 leaves from being heard. 



Goldenc rested Wren. — Several goldencrested wrens arrived 

 during the last week of October. 



Storm Petrel. — Storm petrels ,are very late breeders. I have 

 found fresh eggs as late as the middle of August : it is therefore 

 not to be wondered at that young birds driven inland by the 

 October gales are not always iu complete ])lumage, the abdomen 

 being covered with a large fluffy mass of blackish down. 



Jack Snipe. — Jack snipe have been very abundant since the 



frosty weather set in. During the snow at Christmas they were 



constantly to be met with upon low gravelly beaches, as well as at 



the springs inland. 



Henry L. Saxby, 



Baltasound, Shetland, February ",23, 1871. 



Notes on the Zoology of Neurfoundland. 

 By Henry Reeks, Esq., F.L.S., &c. 



(Continued from Zool. S. S. 2049.) 



Cheiroptera. 

 The Common Bat (Vespertilio subulatus, Say). A notice of this 

 bat — the only species I obtained in the island — should have headed 

 my previous article on the Mammals of Newfoundland, but the 

 specimen, brought home in alcohol, had not then been identified : 

 since then it has been presented to the British Museum, and I am 

 indebted to Mr. G. R. Gray for the above nomenclature. It 

 appears to be a rare animal on the N.W. coast, as the only speci- 

 men either seen or obtained was that brought home, and which 

 was captured and brought into the house by a cat: the settlers, 



