4884 THE ZooLocist—APrRIL, 1876. 
was supposed, from some local museum, and which was made to do duty a 
second time. It is hardly likely that this could have been the same which 
there is reason to believe was really shot in 1836, and yet there must be 
some connection. Another point of similarity is that they appear to have 
both been first recorded in provincial papers and copied afterwards into 
journals of Natural History. That the occurrence of November, 1836, really 
was an albatross, corroborative proof is given by the Editor of the ‘ Ibis’ for 
1868 (Prof. Newton), who in an editorial note (at p. 294), says that two 
specimens of Diomedea chlororhynchus “seem undoubtedly to have been 
killed near Kongsberg, in Norway, in April, 1837,”—five months before 
the capture at Chesterfield. The coincidence of date is very remarkable. 
I submit these remarks to your readers, and I hope that something further 
will turn up in the matter, about which we cannot be said to have too much 
light at present—J. H. Gurney, jun. 
Correction of an Error.—Zool. 8. 8. 4698, first line, for moulting read 
mottling.—J. H. G., jun. 
Lizard Snake in Hampshire. — ‘Lhe occurrence of the lizard snake 
(Coronella levis) in the neighbourhood of Ringwood, some twenty or more 
years ago, is undoubtedly a well-known fact to most of the readers of the 
‘ Zoologist’; but I have never heard that it has been taken in any other 
locality except upon those extensive heaths in South-Western Hampshire 
and the adjoining heaths of East Dorset, and even in its favoured haunts 
it is far from a common species. Several have been taken in the neigh- 
bourhood of Bournemouth at different times, as recorded in former volumes 
of the ‘ Zoologist’; for instance, one at Bournemouth, in 1871, by Mr. 
Ei. B. Kemp-Welch, and another at Pokesdown, the following year, by my 
friend the Rey. A. C. Hervey, beside a few others previously taken and 
recorded; but in every case it seems only a single specimen was met with. 
In 1874 Mr. Hervey took another specimen on the heaths near here, and 
having caught it alive, if I mistake not, sent it to the Zoological Gardens. 
In July, last year (1875), I was on the heaths, looking for Anarta Myrtilli, 
and the sun was excessively hot about mid-day, and there—upon a sandy 
bank—was a lovely Coronella levis stretched out at full length. I had seen 
but one living specimen before, although I had kept my eyes open, I stood 
at some distance and admired the reptile, and, as it became uneasy and 
prepared to make its exit, its body looked iridescent in the sun. I approached 
nearer, and it raised its head, turning it towards me in a defiant attitude, with 
its little black forked tongue moving in and out, and altogether looking very 
fierce ; but I heard no sound such as the common snake or the adder will 
sometimes emit if you chance to disturb or annoy them. ‘This defiant 
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