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bird at all, though the Luz ornithologist showed me some eggs 

 he had taken there. 



Tetrao urogallus, Linn. — I understand that they are fairly 

 numerous in some of the pine forests above St. Sauveur, though 

 I never had the good fortune to meet with them. In theArgeles 

 collection. 



Porzana maruetta, Leach. — There is one at Argeles. I 

 imagine this bird came from the river side between there and 

 Lourdes, 



(Ediaiemus scolopax, Gmel. — In the Argeles collection. 



Grits communis, Bechst. — I noticed a very fine specimen 

 " wrapped " in the Argeles collection. 



Totanus hypoleucus, Linn. — I saw it in the river-bed near 

 Argeles. 



T. ochropus, Linn. — I watched one of these birds for some 

 time through my telescope from the old bridge at Argeles. I 

 have no doubt a pair had a nest somewhere near, as we saw them 

 about there once or twice afterwards. 



Numenius arquata, Linn. — In the collection at Argeles there 

 are two or three specimens. 



Sterna anglica, Linn. — A bird of this species has found its 

 way into the collection at Luz. 



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MAMMALIA. 



Rudolphi's Rorqual on the Coast of Essex. — At a meeting of the 

 Zoological Society, held on the 90th November last, the President (Prof. 

 Flower) gave an account of a specimen of Rudolphi's Rorqual, Balanoptera 

 borealis, Lesson (Sihbaldiiis laticeps, Gray), lately captured at the mouth of 

 the river Crouch, Essex. The animal had been stranded, and a dispute 

 arose with regard to ownership, which ended in litigation between the 

 captor and Sir Henry Mildmay, who claimed it as lord of the manor within 

 which it was captured. The judge's decision was in favour of the lord of 

 the manor, but we have not heard what has become of the specimen or 

 whether the skeleton has been preserved. Only one other instance of the 

 occurrence of this whale in British waters has been satisfactorily established. 

 This was a specimen taken near Bo'iiess, in the Firth of Forth, in 

 September, 1872, and described by Professor Turner in the 'Journal of 



