1222 The Zoologist— May, 1868. 



of the throat, and the black and white striped feathers of each side of the neck, were 

 also making their appearance. The following are the dimensions: — 



Total length, beak to tail, both inclusive 30 inches. 



Tip to tip of fully extended wings - 50 „ 



Wing, from carpal joint to tip 13 „ 



Bill: tip to base --...-- 2|„ 



„ tip to gap - - - - - - - 3| „ 



Neither Yarrell uor Morris gives the weight of specimens of the blackthroated diver: 

 the one here recorded weighed just five pouuds. The stomach coulaiued some fish- 

 bones, scales, and part of a small roach. — T. E. Gunn. 



Iceland Gull off Brixham. — I have just seen a nearly adult specimen of the 

 Iceland gull at the shop of Mr. Jacobs, birdstuffer, Newton Abbot. Mr. Jacobs 

 informs me that he shot the bird from a boat off liiixham, on the 23rd of March, and 

 that it was in company with a flock of herring gulls. — J. H. Gurnet/; March 26, 

 1868. 



Picked Dog-fish with Coralline attached. — On the 18th of March a picked dog- 

 fish was brought to me: it was a female, heavy with young, of full age, and apparently 

 healthy: its peculiarity was that with its root or base under, and clinging all round 

 the spine of the second dorsal, there was a healthy growing specimen of the sea-hair 

 coralline (Sertularia operculala). The coralline had several branches, and was about 

 four inches long: it was growing so firmly on the spine that I could not remove it 

 without destroying the root. — Thomas Cornish; Penzance, March 21, 1868. 



Salmon Peel at Penzance. — Salmon peel have this week been taken in drift-nets, 

 several leagues south of the Runnel-stone — that is, in the open sea in deep water: 

 I have not seen the fish myself, but I can rely on my information. — Id. ; March 28, 

 1868. 



Boar-fish near Penzance. — A small but very perfect specimen of the boar- fish 

 {Zeus aper) was brought to me on the 1 1th of March. It was picked up dead on the 

 beach at Sennen Cove, near the Land's End. This cove is near the Runnel-stone, at 

 which place a large number of these little fish were taken by a trawler some years ago. 

 — Id.; March 22, 1868. 



Boar-fish at Whitsand Bay, Land's End. — Through the kindness of Mr. J. Symons, 

 of Mayon, I have received another specimen of the boar-fish, found washed ashore 

 this week at Whitsand Bay, Land's End. It is of importance, because its diminutive 

 size authorizes the belief that it was hatched in our seas. It measures over all one 

 inch and five-eighths; eye to furk one inch and one-eighth ; in depth, without fins, 

 six-eighths of an inch, and including fins one inch and one-eighth; head, from the 

 extremity of the snout to the posterior edge of the operculum, four-eighths of an inch, 

 of which the nearly circular orbit of the eye occupied a space of no less than seven 

 thirty-seconds of an inch. Iu this extraordinary size of the eye and in a well-defined 

 black spot at the upper base of the caudal-fin it differs from Zeus aper, as described 

 by Yarrell and Couch; but as in all other respects, including colour, it agrees with 

 their description, I am inclined, considering its size, to treat it as an immature speci- 

 men of the genus with which we are already acquainted. Corvstes Cassevelaunus has 

 already been brought to me: its appearance is early. — Id.; March 28. 



