220 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Miterdale, a little valley running up towards Burnmoor, one of the 
loneliest and wildest parts of the district. It was an adult female Pine 
Marten, Martes sylvatica, not yet pregnant, measuring two feet three 
inches and a half from the nose to the tip of the tail. The breast-spot was 
white, with the faintest possible tinge of yellow at the centre. A Stoat was 
trapped in Murthwaite Wood, Gosforth, on March Ist, which was white, 
with the exception of the top of the head, back of the neck, and a faint line 
about a quarter of an inch broad running down the backbone. The tip of 
the tail was black as usual—Cuantes A. Parker (Gosforth, Carnforth). 
Wuire-BEAKED DoLpain.—A young female of this species (Delphinus 
albirostris) was landed at Yarmouth on March 22nd from one of the 
herring-boats which had been fishing somewhere in the English Channel. 
‘The man who exhibited it in the Norwich Townland Fair, where I saw it, 
said, “off Cornwall,” but was not very sure. In colour it very closely 
resembled the specimen recorded in ‘ The Zoologist’ for 1879 (p. 421), but 
was rather larger, measuring in total length five feet, the other dimensions 
being in proportion.—'l’. SourHweE.u (Norwich). 
Lone-kareD Owxs 1n Guernsey.—I have had several notes from 
correspondents in this island on the unusual number of Long-eared Owls 
which made their appearance there during the last autumn and winter. 
At first I thought there might be some mistake as to identity, and that the 
birds seen and shot were Short-eared Owls, which are always common there 
in the autumn. Accordingly I wrote to Mr. Jago, the birdstuffer at 
St. Peter’s Port, to send me a skin of one of the owls of which he had had 
so many. He did so, and it turned out to be a Long-eared Owl, and with it 
he sent a note saying that Long-eared Owls had been very numerous that 
winter, and he had had many through his hands. He added, ‘“ The first I 
received was purchased by a lady in the market on November 8th, and a 
few days afterwards I received two from Herm; the following week I had 
nine brought to me. The Herm keeper shot two shortly after the first, and 
he then told me he could shoot a dozen any morning he liked. The last 
I received was shot on February 5th, making about thirty that have passed 
through my hands. I also know of many being killed that have not been 
brought to me.” Undoubtedly this shows that a large migratory flock of 
Long-eared Owls visited the islands this winter, as the Long-eared Owl is 
usually by no means a common bird in the Channel Islands, and I was 
previously aware of the occurrence of few examples. Short-eared Owls, 
I believe, were seen in their usual numbers last autumn, Mr. Jago in his 
letter remarking that he had had about the usual number through his 
hands.—Crcit Suirn (Bishop’s Lydeard, Taunton). 
