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26 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Mr. Alfred Eccles, a former Vice-President of the Otago Acclimatisation 
Society, has obligingly communicated an extract from the ‘Otago Daily 
Times,’ wherein a special correspondent, writing on this subject, remarks as 
follows:—In riding near Popotunoa Bush recently, in company with a 
friend of mine—a resident at Popotunoa—we flushed two pheasants, a cock 
and ahen. On expressing my surprise and delight, he informed me that 
there were plenty more there, and that along the Kuriwao Hills (Mr. 
Roberts's) and up the Waiwera Gorge, and all along that range by Kaihiku 
Bush, and Warepa, down to South Molyneux, and for miles back, 
pheasants were to be found in great abundance. This is good news for 
sportsmen, as from the nature of the country they can never be exterminated 
by fair shooting, and will afford sport quite equal, if not superior, to black 
game shooting in Scotland. Mr. Campbell, of Glenfalloch, tells me that 
there is a solitary hare frequently seen about his place, both by himself and 
others who know a hare when they see one. It is a great puzzle where 
poor puss could have come from; she must have either swum the Molyneux 
or crossed by Balclutha bridge. I hear the rabbits are spreading very 
rapidly in Southland, and threaten to be a fearful curse; they are now 
almost, if not quite, up to the Mataura in large quantities.” 
Buve SuarKx orr PrymourH.—In September last a very beautiful Blue 
Shark (Squalus glaucus) was captured off Plymouth. Its length was fully 
eight feet, and its colour exceedingly fine. This specimen, I am sorry to 
say, was not preserved, but I managed to secure some of its teeth, which 
are finely serrated.—Jonn GarcomBe (8, Lower Durnford Street, Stone- 
house, Plymouth). 
[This Shark is said to be not.common during the Pilchard season off the 
Cornish coast.—Ep. ]. 
OccuRRENCE OF THE Fox Sark orr Te1gNMoutH.—Being in Taunton 
one day towards the end of November, I noticed in the Corn Market a small 
tent erected, with a notice, written in large characters, ‘Strange Fish,” 
pinned on the outside. A worthy tar, who had charge of the exhibition, 
assured me I should see a most extraordinary monster of the deep, which no 
‘man had ever seen before, and which no one could name. I paid the 
modest sum of one penny for entrance, expecting to see a dogfish or a 
‘porpoise, but found instead a remarkably fine specimen of the Fox Shark, 
or Thresher (dlopes vulpes), which measured about seven feet from the head 
to the end of the elongated tail. The fisherman told me that this Shark 
had become entangled in their herring nets, about two miles to the west of 
Teignmouth, and had been secured after a desperate struggle. It was very 
fairly stuffed, and had already been exhibited at Exeter and other towns, 
and no doubt will be found a more remunerative take than many good hauls 
of herrings—Murray A. Maruew (Bishop's Lydeard, Taunton). 
[The Fox Shark, or Thresher, although occasionally met with in various 
