OCCASIONAL NOTES. AT 
fish, apparently of the same kind, in the harbour, not two hundred 
yards from the window of the room in which I write, and this 
fine fellow did not seem to manage it a bit better than the Shag. 
But of all fish a large Flounder or Dab is to the Northern Diver 
by far the most troublesome to manage. 
On the 11th December I saw another immature Black Redstart 
on the rocks at Stonehouse. ‘There were two young male Golden- 
eyes in the Plymouth Market on the 16th, presumably obtained in 
the neighbourhood. Little Grebes at the same time were very 
plentiful in the rivers and estuaries ; thirteen of the latter were seen 
together on the Laira, and several were brought to our birdstuffers ; 
some of them, strange to say, still retaining traces of the breeding 
plumage, having the cheeks and sides of the neck strongly tinged 
with chesnut or bay, and the breast and belly clouded or spotted 
with dusky gray. During the same month some Long-eared Owls 
were killed in the neighbourhood of Plymouth, and several Oyster- 
catchers were seen and shot on the Plymouth Breakwater. 
OCCASIONAL NOTES. 
A CURIOUSLY-COLOURED WerasEL.—On the 25th December, 1876, a 
Weasel was caught in a rat-trap at Northrepps, Norfolk, which had both 
fore feet and one fore leg entirely white, also an oblong brown spot in the 
midst of the white of the abdomen. The Weasel not being subject toa 
seasonal change of colour like the Stoat, I think this variation from the 
normal colouring worth recording. The specimen was an exceedingly 
small female, weighing not quite two ounces.—J. H. Gurney (Northrepps, 
Norwich). 
[In the second edition of Bell’s ‘ British Quadrupeds’ it is stated (p. 188) 
that “‘ sometimes, though rarely, the Weasel becomes white in winter; and 
the tail, though paler than at other times, always retains its reddish tinge, 
as that of the Stoat does its black tip."—Ep.] 
On THE OccURRENCE oF THE LEMMING IN NEWFOUNDLAND.— Since 
reading the interesting paper by Mr. W. D. Crotch on the “ Migration and 
Habits of the Norwegian Lemming” (Journal of Linnean Society, vol. xiii. 
No. 65, p. 83), it strikes me that there is just a possibility that this inte- 
resting little animal may be found to inhabit the mountains in the northern 
parts of Newfoundland. It is, I believe, indisputably proved that the Lem- 
ming is an inhabitant of Greenland: then why not Newfoundland? I know 
of no other species of the Arvicole, or even of the Muride, which makes sueh 
