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York, whose German home is at Ahlfeld, in the province of Hanover, 

 whither the birds are brought from all parts of Germany. At Braunlage, 

 in the Hartz, this dealer has a factory which is capable of turning out every 

 day the material for a thousand bird-cages. This material is given out to 

 the peasants, who make the cages at home. From Ahlfeld the birds are 

 shipped to New York via Bremen, accompanied by attendants. Each 

 attendant has under his care about a thousand birds, each in its own 

 little wooden cage. — Journal of the Society of Arts. 



FISHES. 

 Large Carp in Sussex.— The Great Pond at West Harting, Sussex, 

 has long been famous for its Carp, and doubtless in olden times (16th 

 century) supplied a goodly number of these and other fish for the refectory 

 of the monks of Durford Abbey, the ruins of which may be seen at no great 

 distance. In the autumn of 1858, when this pond was cleared out, there 

 were counted 900 Carp, one of which measured 34 inches in length, and 

 weighed 24 J lbs. : 300 Tench ; more than 1000 gold-fish ; and at least a ton 

 weight of eels, besides a Pike weighing 27£ lbs., in the act of digesting two 

 Carp of 4 lbs. and 2 lbs. respectively. The monster Carp above referred to 

 has been recorded as the largest taken in English waters, and has been 

 figured (from a photograph taken by the late Mr. John Weaver, of Uppark) 

 in Mauley's ' Notes on Fish and Fishing' (1877), as well as in the ' History 

 of Harting,' by the Rev. H. D. Gordon, published in the same year. In 

 1862 this pond, which once covered thirty acres, was again fished, and on 

 that occasion, although the largest Jack did not exceed 18 lbs. and the largest 

 Carp 13 lbs., upwards of 22 cwt. of Carp and Tench were taken, and nearly 

 8 cwt. of eels. The great Carp taken in 1858 has now been eclipsed by 

 another which has quite recently been taken out of and returned to the same 

 pond, and which (as we are informed by our old friend the Vicar of the parish, 

 the Rev. Prebendary Gordon, M.A.), was ascertained to weigh no less than 

 29 lbs., the scales in which it was weighed having been tested by the police 

 supervisor and found accurate. " Carpe diem " / we believe was the classical 

 expression which fell from the lips of our informant on beholding this 

 monster ! — Ed. 



CBUSTACEA. 



Nymphon and Caprella on the Coast of Sligo. — Early in September 

 my sister, Miss Amy Warren, when searching for shells in the rock-pools 

 on Carrahubbock shore, below Enniscrone, found two specimens of Nymphon, 

 one of a reddish white colour, the other grey ; and a specimen of that 

 strange-looking crustacean, Caprella. The latter is exactly like the figure 

 of the Caprella represented in Sir Wy ville Thompson's book, ' The Depths 

 of the Sea,' with this exception, that the hooks of the pair of hooked claws 



