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emerging from it." The man " bore a good character for honesty and credibility, and 

 was as intelligent as most persons in his sphere of life, being a working carpenter." 

 Some fourteen years ago, when residing at Great Glemham, in the county of Suffolk, 

 I was told that our servant boy had seen a swallow fly out of the pond : as it was very 

 early in the spring, and the weather cold and inclement, I felt little doubt that the 

 bird he saw was not a swallow, and still less that it had not emerged from the water. 

 Some days afterwards the man servant asked me to look at a bird which had been 

 found near the pond before mentioned, which he said was like a swallow with web feet: 

 directly T saw it I knew it was a stormy petrel, "Mother Cary's chicken" of the 

 sailors, but I did not examine it sufficiently to be able to tell the species. The bird 

 had doubtless been driven inland by stress of weather, had alighted in our pond as an 

 eligible resting-place, and on rising from it had been mistaken for a swallow. 

 Whether it is likely that the accounts of the emergence of swallows from the water, in 

 the spring, have arisen from like causes, I am not prepared to say ; but I mention this 

 incident, for which I can vouch, as tending to throw some light upon a subject which 

 appears to have attracted considerable interest. — E. N. Bloomfield ; Clare College, 

 October 31, 1856. [Obligingly communicated by Professor Henslow.~\ 



The Short Sun Fish (Orthagoriscus Mola) and its parasite Cecrops Latreillii at the 

 Channel Isles. — An example of the short sun fish was taken during the past summer 

 between Jersey and Guernsey. I did not see the specimen, but two of its parasites 

 (there were four taken) were brought to me for identification while staying in Guernsey. 

 The parasites were Cecrops Latreillii, and were adhering, as they are usually found, to 

 the gills. — Alfred Merle Norman ; Kibworlh, Leicestershire, October, 1856. 



The White Shark (Carcharias vulgaris) cast up at Herm. — My friend Mr. C. F. 

 Lukis, the well-known naturalist of the Channel Isles, while staying for a few days on 

 the Islet of Herm in August, fell in with a white shark " twelve or fourteen feet long," 

 among the rocks near the famed shell beach. I am not aware of any well-authenticated 

 instances of the occurrence of this shark upon our coasts, and it is admitted with some 

 doubt into Yarrell's work. — Id. 



The Angel Fish (Squatina angelus) in the Firth of Clyde. — Our late lamented 

 ichthyologist says that this fish is frequently taken on the east coast of England, and 

 has been several times taken in Ireland, but no instance is given of its having been 

 met with in the West of England or Scotland, neither does it occur in the ' Catalogue 

 of the Fish of the Moray Firth,' by Mr. Gordon, though Dr. Baikie (Zool. 3845) says 

 " rare" for the Orkney at Shetland Isles. It is by no means uncommon, however, in 

 the Firth of Clyde, where it may be frequently found thrown up after gales. On one 

 occasion we harpooned a fine fellow who was basking asleep in the sun, but it broke 

 away before it could be secured. — Id. 



The Anglesey Morris (Leptocephalus Morrisii) at Falmouth.-rl have dredged a 

 specimen of this remarkable riband-like fish in fifteen fathoms off Falmouth. — Id. 



