234 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Golden Oriole in Kent.—On April 21st I saw in Westerham Park, 
Kent, a male specimen of Oriolus galbula feeding in company with two or 
three Thrushes. I watched it for nearly half an hour, hoping to see a 
female Oriole, but failed to detect one. I have abstained from recording 
this rare visitant, trusting to give ita chance of life, until it had overcome 
the fatigue of migration—Joun T. Carrineron. 
The Great Grey Shrike in Holderness.—This somewhat local bird 
was met with last April at Arram Hall, near Hornsea, the residence of 
Mr. Thomas Bainton. It visits us, though sparingly, towards the end of 
autumn, returning to the north of Europe for the breeding season.— 
Peter Incuparp (Hornsea, near Hull.) 
Bittern in Devonshire.— On January 15th a Bittern, Botaurus 
stellaris, was shot in the parish of Bickington, about eight miles from 
Barnstaple, and was taken to Mr. Rowe, the taxidermist, of this town, 
at whose shop I had an opportunity of inspecting it.—J. G. Hamiine 
(The Close, Barnstaple). 
Kite in Suffolk—A male Kite was taken at Hriswell, in Suffolk, on 
November 16th last. This is the same bird which is referred to last 
December in two issues of ‘ The Field,’ under the heading of “ The Kite 
in Norfolk.”—Jutian Tucx (Tostock Rectory, Suffolk). 
Little Gull in Cornwall.—On February 21st, whilst out on the sand- 
flats between Hayle and St. Ives, a friend of mine observed two specimens 
of the Little Gull (Larus minutus), one of which he was fortunate in 
shooting for me, a good specimen of a young bird.—F’. Sransevx (Staple- 
grove, Taunton). 
REPTILES. 
Lizard swallowed and rejected alive by a Viper.— Mr. R. H. 
Ramsbotham, Waterside, Todmorden, has sent to the British Museum, 
for examination, a Viper and a Lizard in spirit, with the following 
remarks :—‘‘ This adder was caught at Trowbers Warren, Sussex, on 
April 24th, 1889, about noon. It was kept in this bottle without spirit 
till the following morning, between 9 and 10, when the bottle was filled. 
Immediately after this was done, the Lizard (which is still in the bottle, 
and has not been touched) crawled out of the snake’s mouth, and was 
quite lively for a short time.” We have thus in this observation three 
facts well worthy of record:—(1) That Vipers do occasionally swallow 
Lizards, although their food normally consists of small rodents. (2) That 
in this instance the snake did not avail itself of its poison-apparatus in 
seizing its prey. (8) That a Lizard retained life for nearly twenty-four 
hours in the gullet of a Viper. The Lizard is an adult female Lacerta 
vivipara.—G. A. BouLenGER (Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road). 
