THE ZooLocist—APRIL, 1875. 4419 
it was impossible to see either the dorsal fin or the flippers, and on a sub- 
sequent occasion, as will be seen, I was equally unfortunate. At a little 
distance the baleen was just visible in the open mouth, but I could not get 
near enough—for the reason already stated—to examine it. By dodging 
the breakers I managed to obtain a rough measurement of the total length 
but by no means an exact one. On my second visit, a few days after, the 
whale was a perfect wreck: it was still lying upon its back, had been dis- 
embowelled, and, of course, the important parts were hidden ; all the cuticle, 
which had before been perfect, was worn off by rough usage; some of the 
ribs were broken and protruding, and the lumbar vertebr in some places 
exposed, the lower transverse processes often broken more or less; the 
smell, owing to the intestines having been removed and floated out to sea,— 
only to be stranded on another part of the coast,—was not so offensive as 
might have been expected, and I succeeded in cutting my way to the 
baleen, which was hidden by the skin of the throat, the lower jaw being 
uppermost; the plates were very much mutilated, dark slate-colour on 
the outer edge, shaded off to dirty white on the inside. The external 
appearance, so far as I could see it, agreed perfectly with the description 
in Bell’s ‘ British Quadrupeds,’ second edition, p. 400. The Rev. C. W. 
Roberts, of Potter Heigham Vicarage, kindly wrote me an account of his 
visit to the whale, but he was not much more successful than I was. On 
both occasions I tried to ascertain the total length, with different results, 
neither of which agreed with that given by Mr. Roberts, the bent and twisted 
position rendering it almost impossible to be exact: I think, however, 
seventy feet is very near the true length, and the tail measured, from point 
to point of the flukes, thirteen feet six inches. I cannot help expressing 
my regret that this fine specimen should be lost entirely to Science. This 
species has occurred on the Norfolk coast, at Lynn, in August, 1842; 
Winterton, January, 1857,—besides several other earlier instances,—and on 
the Lincolnshire side the Wash, in November, 1858. The smaller species, 
B. rostrata, has also been met with several times, viz., at Runton, near 
Cromer, in 1829; Lynn, January, 1851; and at Overstrand, in November, 
1860.—T. Southwell; Norwich, March 11, 1875. 
Hairy-armed Bat in the County Armagh.—My friend, the Rev. George 
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Robinson sends me word that one of his sons shot a hairy-armed bat in a 
field near the Rectory of Tartaraghan, County Armagh, not long since, 
also adding, ‘“‘ This is the second we have had.”—John Gatcombe ; Lower 
Durnford Street, Stonehouse, January 19, 1875. 
Note on Haliaetus vocifer and Bubo capensis.—The following remarks 
may be useful in connection with Messrs. Woodward's interesting paper on 
the Zoology of Natal. MHaliaetus vocifer is quite distinct from the various 
sea eagles inhabiting America, Europe, Asia and Northern Africa, its 
