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of a more sanguine temperament than I am, believes the contrary ; and 

 my original MS., as read from by Canon Tristram at the Manchester 

 meeting, was slightly modified by me before being published. ' The 

 Zoologist' edition was printed while these paragraphs were still under dis- 

 cussion, and the Editor thought the simplest plan was to omit them 

 altogether, especially as the question under discussion was quite apart from 

 the subject on which the Committee was asked to report. — Alfred Heneage 

 Cocks (Great Marlow, Bucks). 



BIRDS. 



Bonaparte's Gull in Cornwall. — I lately received from Mr. T. H. 

 Cornish, of Penzance, for identification, an immature specimen, in the last 

 year's plumage, of a small Gull which was shot at Newlyn, near Penzance, 

 on the 24th October last. Its diminutive size, slender bill, and characteristic 

 markings on the webs of the primaries, showed it to be Bonaparte's Gull, 

 Larus Philadelphia, Ord. — Larus Bonapartii, Swains. & Rich. This North 

 American species, which in autumn goes southward to California on the 

 west, and North Carolina on the east, has been found at the Bermudas, and 

 on several previous occasions has occurred as a wanderer to the British 

 Islands. It must nevertheless be regarded as one of the rarest visitors 

 amongst the Laridce. Before returning the specimen I took the opportunity 

 of exhibiting it at a meeting of the Linnean Society on the 4th of 

 December. — J. E. Harting. 



FISHES. 



Ray's Bream near Penzance. — It may interest some of the readers 

 of ' The Zoologist' to know that, on November 13th, a specimen of Ray's 

 Bream, Brama rayi, was caught with hook and line in Mount's Bay. I saw 

 it while still fresh. Although not particularly uncommon, I never before 

 heard of one being caught with hook and line. They are generally thrown 

 ashore after heavy gales. — T. H. Cornish (Penzance). 



MOLLUSCA. 



A new Locality for Geomalacus maculosus, Allman. — While 

 following the road between Kenmare and Gleugariff, last August, I came 

 across two specimens of this rare and curious slug. They were within a 

 few yards of each other on the damp grassy roadside, about nine miles 

 from Kenmare and a mile from the Tunnel over which runs the boundary 

 between Cork and Kerry. Caragh Lake, where Mr. Andrews first found 

 Geomalacus maculosus in 1842, had hitherto remained its only known 

 habitat, and the chief interest, therefore, of this new Kerry locality lies in 

 the wide extent of country over which this slug may be expected to range ; 

 for while the two localities are more than twenty miles apart in a straight 

 line, Caragh Lake is about 60 feet above sea-level, and the new locality 



