22 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Penzance, likewise wrote me word that Mr. Vingoe, of that town, had lately 
had many immature specimens of the Pomatorhine Skua offered to him for 
sale, and I have lately heard of a small kind of Gull, in almost black plumage, 
having been repeatedly seen at the entrance of Sutton Harbour, Plymouth, 
which I have no doubt was one of the small Skuas in its dark dress. I[ 
may here mention that all the smaller species of Skua are commonly called 
“ Lords” and ‘“ Captains” by the Devon and Cornish fishermen, “ Tom 
Hurry” being also a local name; but the Great Skua (Stercorarius catarractes), 
now unfortunately so rare on our coast, generally goes by the name of 
“ Old Hen.”—J. GarcomBe (Durnford Street, Stonehouse). 
OrnirHoLocicaAL Notes rrom Lowersrorr. — From its geographical 
position there ought to be few better places for observing the southward 
migration of birds in the autumn than Lowestoft, which juts out into the 
sea, and is the easternmost point in England. Having spent most of 
October there, I had many opportunities of noting, as another corre- 
spondent seems to have done at Harwich (Zool. 1879, p. 459), the arrivals of 
Larks and Rooks, which often come over in large numbers. It is singular 
how little rule there is in their movements, to our eyes, several days often 
passing without any arrivals, and then comes a day when they drop in every 
quarter of an hour, not in ones and twos, but in flocks fifty or sixty strong, 
flying comparatively low over the water, the birds passing on inland as if 
they knew no fatigue. The remarkable migration of Skuas, which has been 
observed on the Norfolk coast, if it extended to Lowestoft, did not come 
particularly under my notice, although one day, off the end of the pier, Isaw 
a Skua (I think Richardson’s Skua) chasing some Terns; but the numerous 
examples which occurred in Norfolk are nearly all Pomatorhines, mingled 
with adult Buffon’s Skuas. As the Terns had long left Blakeney, in 
Norfolk, I was surprised to see numbers in and around the harbour, and 
they remained at Lowestoft until about the 24th of October. I had 
an opportunity of examining one of them, and it proved, as I expected, to 
be the Arctic Tern. Common and Herring Gulls were abundant; and 
a Little Gull was shot on the 24th, the only one I have heard of on 
our coast. I explored Lakes Oulton and Lothing for Grebes; but I 
suppose they had migrated, for the only Grebe I saw was a Dabchick 
hanging up in a shop with a few Ring Dotterels. At Fritton Lake, 
however, a splendid piece of water a few miles from Lowestoft, where there 
are two decoys, I saw three or four Great-crested Grebes; one of them was 
swimming outside Lady Crossley’s decoy; and a pretty sight it was amongst 
the different species of Ducks—Mallards most numerous, then Widgeon and 
Teal, and half a dozen splendid Pochards—gracefully floating on the water, 
with no constraint, and quite unaware that we were watching them behind 
the screens, while the well-trained dog dodged in and out in attempts 
