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it splashed drops of a transparent fluid from the mouth against the tin 

 which it had to enter. But the snout had not the aspian character 

 mentioned by Mr. Bouleuger (p. 89). It had received an injury at the base 

 of the tail, and by this I identified it when recaught two years after its first 

 liberation. None of mine fed, though they readily drank, in their cages. 

 Dr. Henry Bird, a very close observer, informs me that he dissected many 

 Vipers which he caught in the Forest of Dean, where he practised, and 

 that he several times found in them the common black Dew-slug, Avion 

 ater ; his notes as to sexual features coincide with those of Mr. Boulenger, 

 as do my own. I am ashamed to add that I never attended to outward 

 cranial differences ; but next summer I intend to carry with me a piece of 

 wax, and with this hastily take an impression from the upper part of the 

 head of any Viper which I may catch. The moulds I will send to 

 Mr. Boulenger next autumn, and I am sure that they will be sufficient 

 to record the number of the various plates. There is no necessity for 

 killing the specimens, unless particularly wanted for other reasons. — 

 Charles A. Witchell (Stroud, Gloucestershire). 



FISHES. 



Greenland Shark at Lynn. — Mr. D. C. Burlingham was kind enough 

 to inform me of the occurrence of a male Greenland Shark, Lamargus 

 borealis, which measured 14 feet 2 inches in length, and weighed ]£ tons, 

 at Lynn, on the 21st January last. It was found stranded on a sand-bank 

 on the east side of the Bulldog Channel, and was brought up to Lynn by 

 a fishing-smack, being still alive when Mr. Burlingham saw it. From 

 Prof. Newton I learn that this fish was subsequently exhibited at Cam- 

 bridge, and that its owner intended to take it to Huntingdon, Peterborough, 

 and elsewhere. This species is of rare occurrence on the Norfolk and Suffolk 

 coast, and the present example is only the fourth of which I have notes. 

 During the autumn herring fishery, Porbeagles, Lamna cornubica, were 

 unusually frequent, much to the annoyance of the fishermen, to whom they 

 cause both trouble and loss by entangling themselves in the nets. Several 

 fine examples were brought into Yarmouth and Lowestoft. — T. Southwell 

 (Norwich). [See the dentition figured by Giinther, ■ Introd.' p. 333. — Ed.] 



Pipe-fishes in Cork Harbour and Killala Bay.— In ' The Zoologist ' 

 for February last Mr. Barrett- Hamilton has recorded the occurrence of the 

 -ZEquoreal Pipe-fish, Nerophis cequoreus, at Waterville, Co. Kerry, and quotes 

 Thompson for localities, which I can corroborate as to the Co. Cork ; for 

 when trawling in the " narrow channel" in Cork Harbour I often got this 

 species, as well as the Great Pipe-fish, and one of the smaller kinds, which 

 I think was the Lesser Pipe-fish. However, I have procured the last 

 named off the island of Bartragh, Killala Bay, and it was identified by the 



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