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rocks. It soon appeared that she was the mother of the newly- 
born one, as she came and lay upon the rock next to the one 
on which the latter lay. Strictly speaking, indeed, the two 
were one, but separated by a complete split or fissure which 
continued through the greater part of their length. To get 
upwards to the joined part, and then down on the other side, 
involved much more climbing than I should have thought the 
little thing had been equal to, but he accomplished it, after 
several near-tumblings, in a surprising way. The mother lay 
entirely on her side, but unfortunately this time, her back was 
turned to me, which quite hid the young one, from the time 
it got into proper position. After about the same space of 
time as on the first occasion of my witnessing this scene, 
the mother moved off into the sea again, and the young one 
settled down to sleep on the rock where he had been suckled. 
As for the other young Seal, if he was fed at all, it must have 
been after dark when I could have no longer distinguished 
anything, and in consequence, had given up watching. His 
cries during all this while were most distressing. They con- 
tinued to be so for some time after I had lain down, but there 
came a point when they grew less, and then ceased, which leads 
me to cherish the hope that he was fed by his more suspicious 
parent during the night, and as he has now, for a long time, 
since morning, been silent, there may have been a time when, 
after much watching from night into day, this may have hap- 
pened again, after I dozed off. 
(To be continued). 
-O; 
The Scottish Naturalist for June contains a paper on ‘ Scottish Hair- 
worms ( Nematomorphia, Gorditdae), their Occurrence, Habits and Char- 
acteristics: with a key for the Discrimination of the species recorded 
from Britain,’ by James Ritchie. 
In Wild Life for June are two papers on ‘The Woodlark,’ by W. 
Farren, and E. E. Pettitt respectively ; ‘ The Shoveller,’ by M. Portal ; 
“The Shag,’ by Edmund Selous, and ‘The Yellow Necked Mouse,’ by 
Miss F. Pitt. All are well illustrated, as usual. 
The Zoologist for June includes an article on ‘A Variety of Water- 
Shrew’ which is almost white, and is presumably from Nottingham. 
The same journal contains a sketch of some curious abnormal hands of 
crabs, and there is an illustrated account of some star fishes feeding upon 
a pipe-fish. 
The New Phytologist published June 7th (the reference as given is 
far too long to quote) includes papers on: ‘ Structure and Development of 
Targionia hvpophyila,’ by Lillian O’ Keeffe; ‘ Further Observations on 
the Heath Association on Hindhead Common,’ by F. E. Fritsch and E, J. 
Salisbury ; ‘ The Australian Meeting of the British Association,’ by E. N. 
Thomas ; ‘ Foreign Pollen in the Ovules of Ginkgo and of Fossil Plants,’ 
by Birbal Sahni; ‘A Disease of Plantation Rubber caused by Ustulina 
zonata,’ by F. T. Brooks, and ‘ The Inter-relationships of Protista and 
Primitive Fungi,’ by F, Cavers. 
1915 July 2. 
