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the plumage of the fourth year, fully adult. I have never seen any 
mention of the beautiful rose-coloured powder which covers the white parts 
of the adult or nearly adult D. exulans in December; this comes off on a 
handkerchief, but is evanescent, or rather it changes to a dirty brown 
colour in the preserved skin. In this respect it resembles, to a certain 
extent, the rose-colour of Caccatua leadbeateri, and that on the breast of the 
Great Red Kangaroo of Australia in the breeding season, though the fading 
in these animals is less than in the Albatross. The beak is also of a delicate 
rose-colour at the same scason. ‘The furthest north I have ever seen any 
Albatross is abont 5° or 6° north of the Cape of Good Hope. Diomedea 
melanophrys reached this latitude inthe autumn in 1885, and the Sooty 
Albatross a degree or two further south, and I have seen ata distance 
during the winter D. exulans in Table Bay; but I believe they occur 
further north. With regard to the expanse of wing of these birds, I have 
never measured an Albatross which was above 11 ft.—-I think the exact 
measurement was 10 ft. 10 in.—in the expanse of the wings; but I have 
been confidently assured by others that they have measured some as much as 
14 ft., and in one instance I was told of one which was 17 ft. across the 
extended wings. I have but little confidence in these measurements. Ifa 
giant race of these birds exists, I suspect it is in the neighbourhood of Cape 
Horn, as all the accounts of them referred to specimens from that locality.— 
W. A. SanrorD (Nynehead Court, Wellington, Somerset). 
Fulmar on Rathlin Island.—I have received information from Mr. 
Gage, the owner of Rathlin Island, that on Sept. 2nd an adult specimen of 
the Fulmar Petrel was caught alive on the east side of that island, and 
was brought to him. ‘This bird is sufficiently rare here to be worth 
recording.—Robert Patrerson (1, Windsor Park Terrace, Belfast). 
Tengmalm’s Owl in Suffolk—While staying lately with my brother- 
in-law, the Rector of Thorington, Suffolk, I heard that a young keeper in 
his parish had got the smallest Owl he had ever seen, which he had trapped 
in the parish, and of which he thought a great deal. On going to see it, 
I found it to be a very good specimen of Tengmalm’s Owl, and very fairly 
set up by a local taxidermist at Lowestoft. It was trapped on a pole on 
Jan. 15th, 1889, by an intelligent young gamekeeper named William 
Haylock in Hally Hills Wood, in the parish of Thorington, near Hales- 
worth, in Suffolk. The property belongs to Major Bence Lambert, and he 
not caring to have it preserved, gave it to the young keeper, who values it 
much. Thorington being within a few miles of the east coast, I should 
think there was ro doubt of its being a genuine immigrant.—Arraur P. 
Morass (Britford Vicarage, Salisbury). 
Notes from South Wales.—The following notes may be of some 
interest as showing the birds which probably breed in one of the least 
