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escaped from some homeward-bound vessel from New York, and found its 

 way to land on the west coast of Ireland. — Ed.] 



fishes. 

 Bonito in the Solway Firth. — A male example of the Bonito, 

 Thynnus pelamis, was found dead upon the sands near Silloth on Sept. 

 15th. It was nearly buried in sand, but some Gulls had opened the belly 

 and extracted part of the internal organs. The visits of the Bonito to the 

 Solway Firth are rare. The only specimen that had been taken on the 

 English side of the Firth previous to this was caught in September, 1856 

 (' Fauna of Lakeland,' p. 477). In the present instance the fish is estimated 

 to have weighed about five pounds. — H. A. Macpherson (Carlisle). 



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Birds of West Cheshire, Denbighshire and Flintshire. By W. H. 

 Dobie. Beprinted from the Proceedings of the Chester 

 Society of Natural Science and Literature. 8vo, pp. 282 — 

 851. With folding Map. Chester. 1894. 

 The last part issued of the Chester Society's ' Proceedings ' 

 is an exceptionally good one. It contains papers on geology, 

 meteorology, botany, and zoology, most of them of local interest, 

 and all of them instructive. That by Prof. T. M. Hughes, of 

 Cambridge, on " Caves and Cave Deposits," explains very clearly 

 their mode of formation, and the nature of the evidence upon 

 which theories as to their age have been founded. Mr. Alfred 

 0. Walker, to whose encouragement and support the Society is 

 much indebted, writes on the climate of Chester, and of the 

 north coast of Wales, as well as on the natural history of the 

 district explored by the Society, extending to the sea-coast of 

 Flintshire and Denbighshire, and including as much of Cheshire 

 as lies west of a line drawn southward from Warrington. Mr. 

 Newstead, the Curator of the Grosvenor Museum, Chester, con- 

 tributes an excellent paper on the Heronries of Cheshire and 

 North Wales, as well as a Preliminary List of the Mammals. In 

 the latter we note his allusion to a record of Daubenton's Bat in 

 the old copper workings at Alderley Edge, the reference to which 

 he has forgotten. He will find it in * The Zoologist ' for 1893, 

 p. 108, and in the volume for 1888 (p. 222), he will find another 

 notice of the capture in Cheshire of the Whiskered Bat. Four 



