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FISHES. 



Lumpsucker on the Welsh Coast.— The occurrence on this coast of 

 the Lumpsucker, Cyclopterus lumpus, may be worth recording. Two 

 examples were washed ashore, about the middle of Maj', in the Traeth 

 back, a tidal estuary near Port Madoc. The smaller of the two, which 

 appeared quite fresh, measured about thirteen inches in length. The other 

 was considerably larger, but much damaged by sea-birds. A specimen of 

 the Sea Wolf, Anarchicas lupus, about three feet long, said to have been 

 taken off Barmouth, was obtained from a fishmonger at Port Madoc in 

 May. I have not met with either of these fishes before on this coast, 

 and believe they are not common here. — G. H. Caton Haigh (Aber-ia, 

 Penrhyndendraeth, Merionethshire). 



INSECTS. 



Bees occupying Birds' Nests. — The occurrence mentioned by Mr. 

 A. H. Bucklaud (p. 238) I do not think is very uncommon. I have 

 frequently found birds' nests thus tenanted. Occasionally the nests have 

 been new ones, but in these cases I have no doubt that they had been 

 robbed and deserted by the birds previous to the bees taking possession. 

 The nests I have usually found thus inhabited have been those of the 

 Meadow Pipit, Hedgesparrow, and Robin, and, on one occasionally only, 

 a Wren's.— Riley Foetune (Alston House, Harrogate). 



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LiNNEAN SoCIETy OF LoNDON. 



April 7, 1887. — Wm. Carrdthers, F.R.S., President, in the chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Society : — Mr. 

 Hunter J. Barron, Mr. James H. Dugdale, and Mr. Edward B. Poulton. 



A series of photographs, taken instantaneously from life, of the White 

 Stork, Ciconia alba, were exhibited by Mr. Edward Bidwell. These had 

 been executed in Germany, and most accurately represented the birds 

 during the breeding season. Not only were the nests, young thereon, and 

 old birds well shown, but the remarkable attitudes assumed preparatory to 

 alighting and commencing flight, as well as the peculiar twist of the neck 

 in calling, &c., were most instructive. 



Dr. Francis Day showed and described some malformed Trout in an 

 early stage of development. 



An important botanical paper on the Gentians was read by Prof. Huxley, 



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