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offensive weapon we might as well have been miles away. We 

 followed it, however, hoping that it would get spent and allow us 

 to capture it somehow ; we were often close to it, but never within 

 reach ; it led us northwards, round Separation Point, and a good 

 evening's work we had before we were again on board the 

 1 Pallas.' Still later in the evening, Chapman, when some miles 

 up the Sound in a boat, saw a bird, which he thus notices: — 

 " Observed a large long-winged falcon, soaring high over the 

 water . . . ; appeared to have a short tail." A large gull 

 will sometimes look very like a bird of prey wben soaring quietly 

 high in the air, but Chapman, to whom I suggested this, was sure 

 this was no such bird, nor is he likely to have been so mis- 

 taken. Faussett and Woolley were with him at the time, and 

 fully believed it to be a falcon. Dr. Malmgren * mentions that 

 a large falcon was observed on two occasions by some members 

 of the Swedish Scientific Expedition, which visited Spitzbergen 

 in 1861, under Nordenskiold and Duner. Professor Newton 

 (' Notes on the Birds of Spitzbergen,' Ibis, April, 1865, p. 227), 

 says of this : — " I can find no other record of the appearance 

 of any of the Falconidce in Spitzbergen." On this occasion 

 Chapman saw several large seals, which may probably be referred 



to P. barbata. 



(To be continued.) 



ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. 

 By Henry Stevenson, F.L.S. 



I can fully endorse the remarks of Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., in 

 ' The Zoologist' for 1880 (p. 22), as to the advantageous position 

 of Lowestoft, geographically, for observing the migration to our 

 eastern shores in late autumn of birds which, in former days, were 

 commonly regarded as residents only. The regular influx, for 

 example, in October, of Starlings, Rooks, Larks, Chaffinches, 

 Tree Sparrows, Greenfinches, &c, affords, day by day, to the 

 ornithologist a ceaseless interest as he watches, glass in hand, the 



* Anteckningar till Spetsbergen's Fogel-Fauna. Af A. J. Malmgren. 

 Ofversightaf Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Forkandlingar, 1863, p. 113. 

 Id., 1864, p. 411. Quoted by Professor Newton in bis ' Notes on the Birds 

 of Spitzbergen,' Ibis, April, 1865. I have not seen the original. 



