74 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Hybrid Canary and Serin Finch. — I have lately acquired the only 

 hybrid between the Serin Finch and Canary that I know to have been 

 reared in England. It is a male, and sings the Goldfinch-song with 

 accuracy and spirit. It was reared iu confinement, in June, 1883, by 

 Mr. J. H. Verrall, of Lewes. It closely resembles a Serin, but the tail is 

 longer, and there is a green shade about the plumage, strongest on the 

 breast. The shape of the head and bill are e.Kactly those of the Serin. It 

 was bred between a male Serin and a yellow domesticated female Canary. — 

 H. A. Macphebson (Carhsle). 



Wryneck in Winter. — On the 1st of January, in Norfolk, I both saw 

 and heard a Wryneck. Is not this a very uncommon occurrence, or has 

 the Wryneck ever been known to stop through the winter? The bird 

 uttered its note, so well known in spring time, only a few yards above my 

 head, it being perched upon the tree under which I was passing. It 

 sounded so loud that I looked up, expecting to see a Kestrel, and was very 

 much surprised to see the Wryneck fly off. — A. H. Upcher. 



Night Heron in Kent. —At a meeting of the Zoological Society held 

 on the ir)th January last, the Secretary exhibited a specimen of the Night 

 Heron, Xi/clicomx r/riseus, which had been shot during the previous month 

 of December in Plumstead Marshes, Kent. See ' Handbook of British 

 Birds,' p. 50. — J. E. Harting. 



Little Gull and Hawfinch at Penzance. — Mr. Edward Vingoe has a 

 specimen of the Little Gull, Larus minutus, lately shot by him on Lariggan 

 Rocks, to the westward of Penzance. It is now with his father, Mr. W. H. 

 Vingoe, who will set it up. The Hawfinch has been observed at Peiidarves, 

 near Camborne. The fact is worth notice, because the occurrence of this 

 bird in West Cornwall is very rare. — Thomas Cornish (Penzance). 



Gulls in the Isle of Wight. — Mr. Rogers, from whom I heard this 

 morning (Jan. 15th), says that neither the Kittiwake nor the Black-headed 

 Gull I)reeds in the Freshwater cliffs, as stated in my note (p. 30). The fact 

 is that Mr. Rogors's letters are seldom punctuated, and the two specimens 

 referred to, though frequenting the cliffs, do not breed there. I sliall 

 therefore feel obliged by the correction of this statement. — H. Had field 

 (High Cliff, Ventnor). 



FISHES. 



Sharks on the Coasts of Devon and Cornwall.— Since my notice of 

 the appearance and capture of Sharks on the coasts of Devon and Cornwall 

 in September last (Zool. 1SS3, p. 471), on my way to Polperro, through 

 Looe, I called on Mr. Stephen Clogg, who told me of many more that had 

 been caught on that part of the coast, among which were one or two 



