THE Zoo.Locist—APRIL, 1875. 4401 
making a visit to the Zoological Gardens there one of primary 
importance. 
J. JENNER WEIR. 
Notes from Castle Eden. By Mr. JoHN ScLaTeEr. 
(Continued from Zool. S. S. 4332.) 
NoveMBER, 1874. 
Purple Sandpiper.—On the 2nd I got another of these birds on 
the beach. 
Redthroated Diver.—On the 5th a young bird, a female, exactly 
corresponding with Bewick’s “lesser imber,” was shot on the 
beach. On the 9th another young redthroated diver was brought 
to me alive from Hartlepool, where it had been shot, but seemed 
little the worse. It arrived just as | was mounting the one I had, 
and was placed on the carpet beside me; so I left off to examine 
it carefully. Its first keen, weird look seemed to say to me—“ You 
had better drop shooting and stuffing us if you cannot make us 
more like ourselves. Cannot you see that those eyes—although of 
much the same colour—are nothing like mine? they were so, but 
now they are round—mine are oval; they look as if they could 
jump out—mine do not seem to project beyond the eyelid; and 
I am certain you cannot imitate them. And now I am anxious to 
see whether you are going to attempt to make my namesake stand 
upright ; and if so in what position you will put her feet and toes. 
I would perhaps have shown you, but the mishap I met with at 
Hartlepool has made that impossible, and I can only now lie as a 
‘flounder flat” I cannot show you my legs, or you would want to 
know why my shins should be continued so far above my knee. 
My ankles, you see, are kept pretty close together near the root of 
my tail above; for if you will lay me on my back you will find 
they are hidden by the lower part of my body; then hold me 
upright, and you will see that I am obliged to turn my feet and 
toes out to an angle of not less than 160° when standing on 
my feet: in this position my body would be nearly perpendicular, 
and if you make me stand on my toes,—which certainly gives 
more room fo¥ my tail,—you will find that my ankle-joints will 
bend backwards, and you must allow me to lean a little forward. 
Now, after the hints I have given you, if you do not succeed, then 
