390 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
their extreme abundance. The great Cyanea capillata, with its 
rust-brown umbrella and apparently interminable streamers, 
occurred almost everywhere, except perhaps in the extreme 
north; and its marvellous profusion is well shown by the fact 
that never, so far as we remember, was the anchor drawn up 
without the chain exhibiting entangled streamers detached from 
specimens which drifted across it. Berox has already been 
noticed from Hammerfest. A discoid form, about five inches 
across, with a very narrow white margin to the umbrella, but 
otherwise colourless, was not uncommon in the south (Christian- 
sand), also Aurelia aurita? These, coupled with the abundance 
of the attached Hydroid stages below the surface, made known 
by M. and G. O. Sars and Storm, promise well for work among 
the delicate and beautiful Hydromeduse with the surface-net on 
this Gulf-Stream-washed coast; whilst dredging, even if we had 
not had the evidence of so many eminent naturalists (McAndrew, 
Sars, Daniellsen, Norman, Lankester, and others) from the 
Lofoden Islands, Vigten Island, Throndhjem, Molde, and the 
southern fjords, will be seen from the above notes to offer the 
expectation of rich harvests in the future. 
ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM NORTH NORFOLK. 
By J. H. Gurney, Jun. 
THE following are the only noteworthy facts in Ornithology, 
in the first half of the year 1886, which relate to the district 
usually comprised in these notes. Of the very remarkable 
passage of Corvide in the spring, some further account is given 
in the ‘Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalist’s 
Society’ (iv. p. 282); and reference may be made to Mr. P. W. 
Munns’ communication from Cassel, in ‘ The Zoologist’ for June 
last (p. 246), as indicating an unusual abundance of Rooks and 
Crows on the Continent, But what is most remarkable is that 
on two of the days on which they were seen in Norfolk,—March 
20th and 25th,—Herr Gitke describes ‘“ thousands” and even 
“millions” as seen by him in the little island of Heligoland, and 
a great many more were noticed at Hanover (‘ Seventh Report 
on Migration,’ p. 91). It is quite evident that the movement was 
