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THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Sabine's Gull in Dublin Bay. — On Wednesday, the 5th November last, 

 I had the good fortune to shoot, at Clontarf, a specimen of the rare Gull, 

 Lams Sabinii, in the first j'ear's plumage, and very similar to an example 

 in the same state of plumage in the Museum of Science and Art. I have 

 presented my specimen to the National Collection of Irish Birds, and I may 

 add that I have had the advantage of Mr. A. G. More's opinion in its 

 identification. — J. J. Dowling (1, Fingal Terrace, Howth Road, Clontarf). 



Note on the Hooded Crow. — The Hooded Crow, Corvus comix, some- 

 times sits very closely. The first nest I got this season was found by a 

 boy in. April last. He thought the nest looked rather new, climbed the 

 bush in which it was placed, and put his hand on the back of the bird 

 sitting on the eggs. From his account to me, it was difficult to know 

 whetlier he or the sitting bird was the most frightened. — William W. 

 Flemyng (Clonegam Rectory, Portlaw, Co. W.iterford). 



Breeding of the Ruff in Lancashire : Correction of Errors. — In my 

 note on tlie breeding of the Kuff in Lancashire (pp. 4G6, 407) kindly make 

 the following corrections: — line 11, for "Crosuns" read "Crossens"; 

 line 15, for "Canner" read "Caunce." — Robkrt J. Howard (Blackburn). 



MOLLUSCA. 



Abnormal Shell of Buccinium undatum. — Through the kindness of 

 Mr. Sibert Saunders, of Whitstable, I have received a very curious shell of 



tlie Common Whelk, which had l)een found amongst a lot of others by a 

 fisherman. I have made a sketch of it, from wliich it will be seen that 

 the growth has gone on regularly down to the fifth whorl, but at that point, 

 owing to some interference from without, the animal appears to have been 

 compelled to forsake its old anterior canal and to carry out a new one at a 



