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the ground-colour and a more purple hue in the blotches. They are very handsome 

 indeed, and have a rare appearance about them. — John A Harvie Brown. 



Sabine's Gull in Dublin Bay. — An example of this arctic Xema, in the first 

 plumage, was shot off Kingstown Harbour on the 18lh of September, 1867, by Mr. 

 Walton T. K. Atkin, brother of the gentleman who shot one on the 28th of September, 

 1866. Both birds are closely similar, and are both preserved in the latter gentleman's 

 collection. — H. Blake-Knox ; Dalkey, County Dublin. 



Sabine's Gull in the County Down. — A Sabine's Xema, shot off Bangor, County 

 Down, in the second week in October, 1867, has been added to my museum. It is 

 similar to that above, and in the first plumage. — Id. 



Pomarine Skua at Eastbourne. — November 7, 1867. A few of these birds generally 

 occur about our sprat season, which mostly commences about the 9th of November, but 

 is, like all sea-fishing, very precarious, and did not this year begin at that time. Four 

 specimens have been procured ; as usual, all immature, and are in the hands of Mr. 

 Bates, birdstuffer. — John Dullon. 



Five Forktailed Petrels near Lynn, Norfolk. — In my last notes from this county 

 (S. S. 1012) I referred to the abundance of storm petiels that appeared on different 

 parts of our coast, after having gales, dining the early part of October, and have now 

 to record the extraordinary number of five forktailed petrels (Thalassidroma Leachii) 

 all killed near Lynn, and, with one exception, immediately after the great storm on 

 the 1st of December. To Dr. Lowe, of Lynn, I am indebted for the following 

 particulars as to date, sex and locality, and was certainly not a little astonished to find 

 this rare petrel all at once doubling the number hitherto known to have been killed in 

 Norfolk. 



November 14. A female killed near Lynn. 



December 2. A male, Lynn Harbour. 



December 2. A male, Seabank, between Lynn and S. Wootton. 



December 7. A male, same locality. 



December 14. A female, same locality. 

 Of these birds one has been placed in the Lynn Museum and the rest are all in private 

 hands. From the same authority I learn that on the 5th of October Mr. F. J. Cress- 

 well, of Lynn, saw nearly a dozen storm petrels [T. pelagica) skimming along over the 

 water at the entrance of the Ouze ; one of them, he says, passed within two or three 

 yards of him when standing at the helm of his yacht. — Henry Stevenson; Nortuich 

 December 23, 1867. 



PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



Zoological Society. 



December 12, 1867.— Dr. Gray, V.-P., in the chair. 



The minutes of the last Meeting having been read and confirmed: — 



Dr. Peters communicated a note on the question of the homology of the quadrate 

 bone in the class Aves, in which he controverted the view recently maintained by 

 Prof. Huxley as to its supposed correspondence with the incus in the Mammalia. 



The Secretary called the attention of the Meeting to the fact of an eland, bred in 

 this country, having been exhibited by Lord Hill at the recent Cattle Show, being the 

 first instance of the introduction of this animal to the meat-markets of Europe. 



