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reddish or yellowish brown, but the tips of the feathers unmixed dark 
brown, forming dark spots on the breast. On the lower breast, flanks, 
belly, legs, and under tail-coverts the markings run into dark brown bars 
on a ground of dull white or pale buff, these bars becoming narrower on 
legs and under tail-coverts. Claws black. Total length, 18 to 19 inches; 
carpal-joint to longest quill-feather, 12} inches: first quill-feather much 
shorter than second, the second shorter than third; third and fourth nearly 
equal, but the fourth the longest in the wing.—R. J. Ussuer (Cappagh, 
Cappoquin). 
Lone-rareD OWL BREEDING IN DorseTsHitrE.—The Long-eared Owl 
breeds every year in Morden Park (near Bloxworth), but until a few days 
ago (May 3rd) I had never succeeded in obtaining its eggs. The nest was 
made in an old Squirrel’s “drey” near the top of a Scotch fir, and 
contained three perfectly fresh eggs —_O. P. Campripex (Bloxworth Rectory, 
Dorset). 
Tue Boar-FisH ar EastBournr.—Four specimens of the Boar-fish, 
Capros aper, have recently been taken on the shore here. In three 
instances they were captured alive-——CuHarLEs Foran (Marshfield House, 
Eastbourne). 
IntRoDUCTION oF THE Brack Bass into EnGLAnD.—There seems to 
be a prospect that we may have, in the course of time, a new fish in England, 
the Black Bass, which is esteemed a delicacy in Transatlantic bills of fare: 
An attempt has been made to acclimatise this fish, and those who are 
interested in the scheme appear to have hopes of success which, perhaps, 
may not be premature or ill founded. The Bass that have been imported 
were brought from the Delaware by an agent of the Marquess of Exeter. 
On his first journey he started with 250 of the fish, and after nursing them 
with the greatest care during the voyage, cooling the water with ice, pumping 
in air, and taking every precaution, 153 of the number originally caught 
reached England, and were turned into Whitewater Lake, near Stamford. 
Most of the lost fish perished whilst crossing the Gulf-stream, when the 
temperature of the water in which they were could not be below 78°, the 
atmosphere being 80° for nearly five days. On the second visit the agent 
started from America with 1200 of the fish, and was able to bring 812 to 
the Lake, where most of them were turned out to ioin their brethren. 
Where the others were placed does not appear. Not any of those in 
Whitewater Lake have been caught yet, but two of them were found dead 
in a pipe where they had got jammed, the pipe supplying a filterer, where 
they could get in but could not get out. These two were some half-pound 
in weight, considerably heavier than when they were put in; and so it is 
