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OCCASIONAL NOTES. 
THe Zoonogican Srarion at Napius.— The Zoological Station at 
Naples has undertaken the publication of a new Zoological Record, in which 
equal attention will be paid to all departments of Zoology. A large staff of 
zoologists of various nationalities will act as recorders under the editorship 
of Prof. J. V. Carus, of Leipsig; and the first volume, dealing with the 
literature of the current year, will appear in 1880. All those engaged in 
zoological work on any group of the Animal Kingdom are invited to send a 
copy of their papers to Prof. J. V. Carus, Leipzig, Querstrasse 30, and to 
write on the address “for the Jahresbericht.” Papers so sent will be 
distributed by Prof. Carus amongst the recorders, and, after being abstracted 
for the Record, will be deposited in the Library of the Zoological Station at 
Naples.—Anron Doury (Naples). 
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Aw ALBINO Weaser.—On September 27th I was fortunate enough to 
obtain a pure white Weasel, full grown, a true albino, with pink eyes. It 
was killed by a dog in Soham Fen, Cambridgeshire, on the 17th of the 
month, and has been very well set up by Mr. John Baker, naturalist, of 
Cambridge. This variety is so rare in England that I think it worth 
recording. I have never seen a true albino Stoat. Were such a variety 
procurable I am convinced it would be entirely white to the tip of the 
tail— F RupERicx Bonn (Staines), 
Tue Great Sxva.—In May and June this year a friend and I were in 
the Shetland Islands, chiefly for the purpose of collecting eggs. We had 
the gratification of seeing the Great Skua in its haunts, and it is almost 
worth the journey to see this bird alone; especially interesting because 
so soon likely to become extinct as a breeding bird in Britain. Had 
Mr. Saxby been living, he would not have thought the light-house men 
most to be feared for its extinction; the circumstance I refer to was not in 
existence in his time. As is well known to naturalists, there are only two 
places in Britain where it now breeds, Unst and Foula. In one place I do 
not think we saw more than five or six birds, though the shepherd, who is 
daily on the hills, thinks there may be five or six pairs. From circumstances 
which came to my knowledge, but to which I cannot give full publicity, one 
of these is likely to know the birds no more in a very short time. You will 
appreciate the danger when you understand that, previous to this year, 
