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nata, and Snow Bird, Juneus hiemalis, in numbers; and several Yellow 
Warblers, Dendraca estiva, and White-throated Crested Sparrows, Zono- 
trichia albicollis. There was also one Carolina Nuthatch, Sitta Carolinensis, 
climbing about the boats; a large entirely brown Grosbeak ; and a black 
and orange Warbler like Dendreca Blackburnia. Many of these birds 
were s0 tame that they pitched fearlessly on the heads and shoulders of the 
passengers on deck ; they seemed almost perishing with cold and hunger. 
The only sea-birds seen were a Petrel and a Gull. At noon we were 
378 miles from Sandy Hook. The wind was north to north-west, and the 
weather was fine and clear in the early morning but cloudy afterwards, the 
breeze freshening in the evening. On the 12th only one or two birds were 
about the vessel. One, I think, was a Liurus auricapillus. At noon we 
were 734 miles from Sandy Hook, in lat. 42° 27’ N. and long. 58° 04’ W. 
After this no more land-birds and extremely few sea-birds were observed 
till we reached Queenstown, on the morning of the 18th, when we were 
soon surrounded by the usual crowd of Kittiwakes, aud Black-headed, 
Common, and Herring Gulls. At this place, on the 23rd of February last, 
on the outward voyage, I saw two individuals of the Little Gull hovering 
about the screw-steamer ‘ Republic,’ with the other commoner species. 
The first Dolphins seen on the voyage home were about 300 miles from 
Treland.—W. 8. M. D’Ursan (10, Claremont Terrace, Exmouth). 
MAMMALIA. 
Badgers and Otters in Surrey.—In the last week of October the 
“ Old Surrey ” hounds ran into, and unfortunately killed, before it could be 
rescued from them, a full-grown Badger. Ockley Wood, the scene of this 
catastrophe, used in former days to be a favourite resort for Badgers, and 
the older residents have many stories of moonlight Badger-hunts there, as 
well as of Badger-baitings in the neighbourhood. In a house near here there 
is a stuffed white Budger which was killed forty years ago in Ockley Wood. 
I hardly think that the animal lately killed by the hounds could have been 
a descendant of the former inhabitants of the wood, as the last few years 
have seen the springing up of so many houses in the neighbourhood as to 
render it unlikely for the Badger to have remained with us. It may have 
been a wauderer from a distant and less inhabited part of the county, or it 
may have been one recenily turned down. In the spring of this year a 
half-grown male Badger was trapped in Gatton Park, but this was thought 
to have strayed from a neighbouring park where a pair (one of which was 
afterwards found dead) had been turned out. ‘The animal lately killed, 
being full grown in October, could not, I suppose, have been the same 
animal which weighed 15 Ibs. (I weighed it myself) in April. About four 
years ago a male Otter met with his death at Betchworth, about four 
miles from here, by being run over by a train: the body of this Otter, 
