46 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



manure. The Whales taken are said to be " Humpbacks." A 

 second station has been established within a few miles, and the 

 combined produce has " so far" amounted to 17 Whales, but it is 

 not slear what period of time is covered by the expression "so 

 far." Except that the fishery, at present, is from the shore, the 

 treatment of the produce seems to be similar to that pursued by 

 the Norwegians off the Finmarken Coast. 



I have, as on former occasions, to thank Mr. David Bruce and 

 Mr. R. Kinnes, of Dundee ; and Mr. Michael Thorburn, of St. 

 John's, Newfoundland, for their kindness in supplying me with 

 information. 



NOTES on the ORNITHOLOGY of NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 

 AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. 



By the Right Hon. Lord Lilford, F.L.S. 



I continue my notes from the end of 1894 (Zool. 1895, 

 p. 56):- 



Januaey, 1895. 



3rd. I received from Mr. Mitchell, station-master at Ditch- 

 ford, L.N.W.R., a living cock Sparrow of the blackest Cockney 

 type, that had been caught a few days previously near the station. 

 After one or two baths this bird regained the normal appear- 

 ance of his kind, and I record the occurrence as the only one of 

 the sort that has come to my knowledge in our county. It is 

 difficult to understand why this fictitious melanism should be 

 confined to a solitary individual. 



4th. Three Golden Plovers were killed by one of our game- 

 keepers from a flock that he computed at 180, by far the largest 

 congregation of this species of which I have heard for many years 

 in this neighbourhood. 



5th. Mr. G. Bazeley, of Northampton, under this date, 

 informed me that a Puffin was killed by a pike-fisher on the Nen 

 at Leathe's mill, near Ecton, on 2nd inst. 



0th. Mr. Walter Stopford informed me that he noticed a flock 

 of ten Common Gulls near Tichmarsh on 1st inst. 



7th. My falconer reported two male Peregrines chasing each 

 other and "toying" over and about the house at Lilford for 

 some minutes. 



