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being added to its length and about four feet to its ciicumference ! Accord- 

 ing to anotlier report it was a Sea-lion, Otariajubata, although why this 

 species should have been fixed upon it is difficult to say, seeing that it is a 

 native of the southern shores of South America from Peru and Chili on 

 the Pacific coast to Rio on the Atlantic side, and has never been met with 

 north of the Equator. Moreover, no species of the Otariidce is known in 

 the North Atlantic. Fortunately Mr. F. P. Pascoe, who happened to be 

 staying in Jersey at the time, secured a photograph of the animal, which he 

 very kindly forwarded, and this shows it to be the Grey Seal {H. gryptis], 

 which has been met with on various parts of our coast from Shetland to the 

 Isle of Wight. Mr, J. Sinel, of Jersey, in whose hands the animal has 

 been placed for preservation, has been good enough to send particulars, and 

 states that the entire length was 7 ft. 7 in., greatest girth 4 ft. 8 in., and 

 estimated weight about 500 lbs. ; the brain barely 1 lb. It proved to be 

 an adult malo, with the teeth much worn. — J. E. Harting. 



BIRDS. 



Flamingo shot in Hampshire. — The following particuiai-s concerning 

 a Flamingo, which was shot in Hampshire in November last, have been 

 communicated by Lord Henry Scott to Lord Walsingham, who has very 

 kindly forwarded them for publication ; — 



" I liave referred back to my journal, and find that the Flamingo was 

 shot on the -^Gth of November, 188;5. It had been flying about on the 

 mud-banks outside the Beaulieu river for about a fortnight previously, and 

 many people had gone out to try to shoot it. It was very wild and wary, 

 and no one had been able to get within gunshot of it, as it was able to fly 

 extremely well, and never allowed any boat to approach near enough to it. 

 The coast-guardsmen frequently shot at it with their rifles. When I heard 

 that the bird was being thus shot at, and had been at the mouth of the 

 river so long, I sent a keeper of mine (a naval pensioner and a capital hand 

 with the punt-gun) in the gunning-punt to try to get the bird for me. In 

 this he succeeded, but he was not able to get nearer than about 120 yards. 

 He was laying the punt-gun on the bird at about that distance, hoping he 

 might get nearer and shoot it with the shoulder-gun, when the Flamingo, 

 being on the alert and very wild, rose on the wing, and my keeper Goff 

 fired the punt-gun at him and brought him down with three shots through 

 iiim. The bird is a very fine grown one, quite pink all over, and with a 

 good scarlet wing. There was nothing to show that it could have been at 

 any time in captivity, for its wings were quite perfect, and it was extremely 

 wild and could fly well, taking long flights. I cannot remember much 

 about the weather previous to the bird being seen off the Beaulieu river, for 

 I only returned home on the 20tli from Scotland ; but there had been a 

 great gale from the south-west about a fortnight before, aud it is my belief 



