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Rough-legged Buzzard in Lancashire.—The local papers of Nov. 18th 
having reported the capture of an Eagle in the neighbourhood of Bolton, 
and having reason to doubt the statement, my brother and I arranged to go 
over and see it. Instead of a Golden Eagle we found that the bird was 
Buteo lagopus, with the plumage rather soiled and one leg nearly off, but 
in other respects in good condition. ‘The Field ’ for Nov. 10th reported 
the occurrence of two more near Leeds.—C. E. Srorr (Lostock, Bolton). 
Little Gull in Glamorganshire.—Since forwarding my account of the 
Little Gull in Glamorganshire (p. 25) I have been informed by Mr. Cording, 
taxidermist, of Cardiff, that a male specimen of this species was shot, at 
the mouth of the Taff, in March, 1885.— Diesy S. W. Nicaoun 
(Cowbridge, Glamorganshire). 
Wood Warbler at Cley.—Perhaps the large Warbler met with in the 
scrub at Cley, by Mr. Aplin (p.10) was a Wood Warbler, Phylloscopus 
stbilatriw, which is a species I have shot there in the young plumage in 
autumn.—J. H. Gurney, jun. (Keswick Hall, Norwich). 
FISHES. 
Burbot off the Yorkshire Coast.—On December 26th, 1888, Mr. 
T. H. Nelson sent me a fish which he stated to be very rare at Redcar, and 
not known to the fishermen. I saw at once it was a Burbot, Lota vulgaris, 
and in this determination I was confirmed by Mr. Edward E. Prince, B.A., 
who has paid much attention to the British food-fishes, and to whom I 
showed it the same day. Mr. Nelson has since informed me that it was 
caught on the day he sent it off, at sea, about a mile off the Point 
of Huntcliffe. The fishermen at Redcar told him they had never seen a 
fish like it before. It was caught on a mussel-bait. Being the first time I 
have heard of this—a river-fish—being caught at sea, I should be glad to 
learn if similar instances are known.—W. Dentson-Roxrsuck (Sunny Bank, 
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SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
Linnean Society or Lonpon. 
January 17, 188¥.— Mr. W. Carrutuers, F'.R.S., President, in the 
chair. 
The following were elected Fellows:—J. R. Green, M.A., Prof. Botany 
_ Pharmaceutical Society; R. J. Harvey Gibson, M.A., Lecturer Botany 
~ Univ. Coll. Liverpool; James W. White, of Clifton, Bristol; and Herbert 
_ Stone, of Handsworth, Birmingham. The following recently elected 
