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two or three inches, the palate being almost covered with the fringe, which 

 was of a dirty white colour. The blubber was stripped off on Sept. 8th, 

 and varied from three to seven inches in thickness. As this was the first 

 visit of any of the Balanopteridm to Goole we were very anxious to have it 

 properly recorded, and my friend Mr Birks wrote to Mr. Southwell, of 

 Norwich, who expressed an opinion that it was Rudolphi's Korqual. 

 BalcBnoptera horealis, and was kind enough to bring the capture to the 

 notice of Dr.GiJnther, of the British Museum. An agent came to examine 

 the bones, confirmed Mr. Southwell's opinion, and bought them for the 

 British Museum. The money, together with that obtained by exhibiting 

 the body at Goole, was presented to the Sailors' Institute. — Thomas 

 BoNKER (Goole). 



Ehrata. — In the article on the Finwhale Fishery in Finmarken, 

 p. 368, line 0, for " sand" read " Sound"; p. 309, lines 15 and 16, between 

 "piping" and "which" insert "and containing a liquid"; same page, 

 line 25, for "three-side" read "three-sided"; p. 419, line 5, insert comma 

 after "who," and dele comma after "Norwegians"; p. 420, line 26, for 

 "multiplier" read "accumulator"; p. 421, line 11, for " tompions " read 

 "bitts"; same page, line 22, between "west" and "centre" insert 

 "of the". 



BIRDS. 



Probable occurrence of the Lapp Bunting near Grimsby.— When 

 walking home from Grimsby, on November 8th, through the west marshes, — 

 a locality where I used formerly to shoot Snipe, and have stalked Wild 

 Geese, but now in groat part covered with houses and the new dock works 

 and coaling of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincoln Railway, — I disturbed 

 a small bird from a swampy patch in a grown-up and disused drain. At 

 the first glance I thought it was an unusually large Reed Bunting in 

 summer plumage, but on alighting on a rail-fence within a few yards I at 

 once saw it was a very fine adult male Lapp Bunting ; from the rails it 

 flew to some coal-trucks standing in the siding near the dock. The curious 

 thing was that it was in nearly full summer plumage, the black portions 

 only being somewhat (but very little) flecked or broken. The black of the 

 head separated from the cheeks and breast by a very conspicuous light 

 streak, the gorget seemed to cover much more of the breast than in the 

 Reed Bunting, and it had not the white collar of that bird. In flight it 

 showed some white on the tail. Altogether it was a stronger and more 

 robust bird than the male Reed Bunting, nearly, if not quite, equal in size to 

 a Snow Bunting. Reed Buntings have been very numerous this autumn, 

 and much in excess of what we usually see, and I have recently heard that 

 there has been a large migration across Heligoland. It is disappointing to 

 see anything which cannot witli certainty be identified ; this, however, 



