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grown very tame and feeds in strange places ; for instance, I saw three 

 feeding on fish-guts by the side of a public road, and heard of others 

 feeding in back-yards in the city. They feed on what worms and 

 other food they find inland, as the strands seem quite deserted by them, 

 showing that their prey there must be influenced by the frost. In fact, 

 the strands are quite deserted by all their usual denizens. Some of 

 both species shot were in a fearfully emaciated state — a striking com- 

 parison to a robin killed the same day. 



Cormorant and Shag. — Are very wild and constantly on the wing. 

 Must suffer much on account of the torpidity of the fish, particularly 

 the cormorant, whose chief prey, the flat-fish, lie torpid in the sand. 



Northern Diver. — Has the bill very much worn by rooting up the 



sand-dabs. It is well known that flat-fish bury themselves under the 



sand in severe frosts. Crabs, lobsters and whelks become torpid, and 



will not go into the pots set to take them, but creep to deep water, 



where the frost does not reach. 



Harry Blake-Knox. 



Dalkey, County Dublin, 

 February 14, 1868. 



In Memoriam Wilson Armislead, of Virginia House, Leeds.* 

 By Albert Moller, Esq. 



When, some years ago, I began to converse by pen with the 

 esteemed friend whose decease so many are now deploring with me, 

 I did so from a conviction that, in his owu words, " A somewhat neg- 

 lected portion of Nature's wonderful and infinitely varied productions," 

 viz. galls, wanted elucidation. Besides it occurred to me then that 

 ever since the death of my countryman, J. J. Bremi-Wolf, of Zueric, 

 the study of Swiss galls and of their insects had been lying dormant ; 

 whilst in the hands of Dufour, Giraud, Laboulbeue, Fairmaire, Perris 

 and Vallot, in France; of Von Frauenfeld, Hartig, Kaltenbach and 

 Kollar, in Germany ; of Von der Osten Sacken and B. I. Walsh, in 

 the United States ; and of Westwood, Smith and others in England, 

 the study of these curious productions, of their rightful inhabitants 

 and numerous inquilines and parasites, had elsewhere made many and 

 rapid strides forward, not to forget the very recent investigations on 



* Born 1818 ; died February 18, 1868. A short sketch of his life and social 

 labours appeared in the 'Entomologist' for March, and in the* Leeds Mercury 'of 

 the 20th of February, 1868. 



