26b fkesident's addkess. 



collection. Mr. Lange has one stuffed which was found on the 

 same pond ten years previously. 



*'Mr. H. Bowman liaving informed me that a number of sea- 

 birds had been found dead or very weak on the sands north of 

 Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, and that he had observed them at the end 

 of December and through January into February, I went down 

 on the 2nd of March, and found, between Newbiggin and the 

 river Lyne, five dead Razor Bills, all old birds, in their winter 

 dress, washed up high and dry near the banks. I suppose that 

 they had died from intense cold, as they could not want food, 

 being purely marine birds." 



The fish in small streams and shallow ponds have suffered great 

 mortality from the intense frost. Mr. J. Hancock has seen quan- 

 tities of Tench thus destroyed. 



Tliere is a question in pisciculture which has, up to a short 

 time ago, been pending in mid-Xorthumberland, curious and in- 

 teresting from a Natural History point of view, and important 

 as touching a portion of the food supply of the district. It is 

 this : Is or is not the Coquet a river specially adapted to the 

 wants and necessities of that variety of the Salmon called the 

 Bull Trout ? 



Attempts have been made for the last year or two to supplant 

 this fish by the true Salmon, and the means used were the 

 destruction of the former in the river and the introduction of ar- 

 tificially bred Salmon fi'om the Cocjuet itself and from neij^hboui*- 

 ing rivers. Tcrhaps the experiment has not been carried out 

 so long as to prove its efficacy or the contrary ; but Mr. Carr- 

 EUison has informed me that His Grace the Duke of Northum- 

 berland lias come to the conclusion that the Coquet ehall be let 

 alone, that all experiments shall be discontinued, and that the 

 Bull Trout, which is not a bad fish when taken in proi)ei season, 

 shall be left alone to its own devices, a conclusion which will 

 probably commend itself to Naturalists in general. If this fish 

 could be extirpated for one season, it would infallibly retura the 

 next. 



*' Nafuram expellan fumi tamen mque recurrity 



