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the prey of other animals. A short time since I was told b}' a friend that 

 a wounded Corn Crake, Crex pratensis, recently caught by his dog, 

 disgorged a very small Toad (apparently of this year's hatch); and that, 

 on examining the bird's crop, he also found a Frog of much larger size. 

 About a fortnight ago I noticed in a poultry yard a cock calling his hens 

 to partake of some choice morsel held in his beak. This on examination 

 also proved to be a small Toad with its head much crushed and battered by 

 the cock's beak.— G. T. Rope (Blaxhall, Suffolk). 



FISHES. 



Thresher Shark at Portland. — While staying at Weymouth, during 

 the last week in August, a specimen of this fish, measuring about ten feet in 

 length, was captured off the Chesil Bank, Isle of Portland. — W. Hakcourt 

 Bath (Ladywood, Birmingham). 



Ray's Bream at Scilly. — Ray's Bream has recently been obtained off 

 the Scilly Islands, and I believe this to be its first recorded appearance 

 there. It was taken in a Mullet- (Grey Mullet) seine, shot off Tresco, in 

 the Islands of Scilly, and therefore in free water, swimming at large. 

 I think this is the first recorded specimen captured in the open sea. 

 Through the kindness of Mr. J. C. Tonkin, of St. Mary's, I received the 

 specimen in a perfectly fresh condition. — Thomas Coenish (Penzance). 



[Ray gave the first account of this fish, having obtained a description 

 and figure of one left dead by the receding tide in Middlesburgh Marsh, at 

 the mouth of the Tees, in September, 1681. The largest number of British 

 examples, according to Dr. Day (Fishes of Gt. Brit. i. p. 116), have been 

 taken in the north of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Cornish examples, 

 however, have been recorded by Couch (Zool. 1846, p. 1406), Clogg (Zool. 

 1866, p. 349), and by Mr. Cornish himself (Zool. 1875, 4542).— Ed.] 



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Entomological Society of London. 



September 7, 1887. — Dr. Sharp, President, in the chair. 



Mr. Arthur Sidgwick, M.A., Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 

 of Woodstock Road, Oxford, was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited a living larva of Myrmeleon europcBUS, which 

 he had taken at Fontaiuebleau on the 6th August last. 



Mr. Elisha exhibited a series of bred specimens of both sexes of Zelleria 

 hepariella, Stn. ; and also, on behalf of Mr. C. S. Gregson, a series of eighty 

 varieties oi Abraxas grossulariata, selected from the specimens bred during 

 the year 1886 from 4000 larvae obtained from eggs laid by selected varieties, 

 the result of crossing and interbreeding for more than twenty years. 



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