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tackle displayed in the elegant cases, the lovely flies and pliant, 
well-balanced rods, the graceful models of trawlers and river 
boats, and a thousand other matters which went to make up the 
harmonious whole, do not fitly find a place in this notice, nor, 
however appropriate, will space allow of justice being done to the 
few but valuable books on fish and fishing, or the grand pictures 
by Van Hacken, exhibited by the Fishmongers’ Company with 
many others, amongst which Mr. Mundella’s presentation picture 
by Rolfe was conspicuous ; there were also several other beautiful 
pictures by that inimitable painter of the finny tribe. There was 
one other feature in connection with the Exhibition which proved 
very attractive; during its continuance a series of lectures was © 
given on subjects connected in some way with the objects 
exhibited; it is only necessary to say that Professor Huxley 
discoursed on the “ Herring,” Mr. Jex on “ Deep-sea Fishing,” 
Mr. R. B. Sharpe on “ Fish-eating Birds,” and Mr. H. N. 
Moseley on “ Deep-sea Dredging ’’; and it will be readily under- 
stood that the lectures were both attractive and instructive. 
The Exhibition at Norwich, the first of its kind in this 
country, has been a thorough success from its beginning to its 
close, and it is only to be hoped that future exhibitions of the 
same kind, founded upon the experience there obtained, will be 
even more successful, and of still greater practical utility. 
ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM MAYO AND SLIGO. 
By Ropert WARREN. 
Tue intensely cold winter and cold and backward spring have 
not prevented some of our summer visitors from putting in an 
early appearance this season; and although on the nights of the 
27th, 29th and 30th of March, the thermometer registed six, five, 
and three degrees of frost respectively, yet a pair of Sandwich 
‘Terns were seen and heard on the river here on the 31st, but the 
main flight did not arrive till some days later. 
I heard the first Chiffchaff about the place here on the 1st of 
April, but the temperature falling with the easterly winds, and 
the nights being frosty up to the 6th, checked its singing for 
several days, though I frequently remarked it while silent, 
