26 HARRISON : RUFF IN NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE. 
Scombresox saurus. Saury or Skipper. In my fish notes 
published in the ‘Naturalist’ for November (p. eg please 
substitute Saury Pike or Skipper (Scombresox saurus) for Garfish, 
brought into Whitby, October znd, by Waller, caught in the 
herring-nets. 
I saw the fish, but did not examine it minutely ; I have since 
had the opportunity, oe have it now in my possession. It has 
five finlets between the dorsal and caudal fins, and seven 
between the anal and aia fins ; this leaves no doubt as to its 
identity. I purchased it to-day (3rd Nov., 1891). 
Se ae ca 7. 
Ruff in ire.—On October 7th, 1891, I shot a fine specimen 
of the Ruff ppmetbinge pas) in gs _— It proved to be a bird of the year. 
The neck and upper tags wer breast ae belly, dull white ; feathers 
of the back, pm oa margins, the latter bang very conspicuous. 
It was feeding, in comp: y with hen de Dunlins and Ringed Plovers, on a piece of 
wet grass land Vadjoining t the Humber embankment. The Ruff was once common 
on the Hum arshes of go eg but is now only ae as a bird of double 
passage. ane pcre account of Sar ete abundance of the Ruff and Reeve 
in Lincolnshire, ea Mr. ° oologist ’? for June 1890, a si 
fae two eggs and t e female is reco eae hav been taken - oe as 1882. 
Joun W. pres Goxhill, Latotnslive, November 16th, 
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NOTES AND NEWS. 
An interesting se a Mr. Arnold T. Watson, of Peers: is eee in 
‘Nature’ for Sept. 24th, 1891, *.. 507, upon ‘The Pro e Devi an 
Annelid,’ and well illustrated by means of a woodcut. The peral silty is P tat 
upon the retreat of the anima ron came from the Channel Islands, but the 
tightly by collapse of the sides, ng lg the tube itself, when so flattened, coils u up 
from the tip spirally, so as to assume much the appearance of a young fern-frond. 
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At the Fifth Geer ane Congress of Geologists, which met at Washington 
during the last week of August, North of England geol was represented by 
Professor T Mcteeany Hughes an Hughes, and Messrs. Alfred Harker and 
Bernard embers part in th ks’ excursio: the 
, which visited the Bad Lands of Dakota, the Yellowstone Park, the silver 
ines of Montana, the Great Salt Lake, the Wasate ange, h Plateaux 
of Utah, the Royal Gorge of the Arkansas, Pike’s Peak, the Painted Desert o 
Arizona, the Grand Cajion of the sy eiat lh the Falls of Niagara, the Hudson 
Valley, and other objects of geological inter 
poo 
official report of the Fourth Congress (London), which has recently 
appeared, contains the guide-books prepared for the excursions in 1888, bacteding 
those to East and West Yorkshire, 
jermo- 
ed in detail in a recently published memoir by the same writer in conjunction 
wk Mr. J. E. Marr (‘The ‘Shap Granite, and pices ed Rocks,’ Q. J. G. 5.) 
Naturalist, 
