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identified. I unfortunately spoiled the nest, thinking it belonged to Passer 

 domesticus. — Julian G. Tuck (Tostock Rectory, West Suffolk). 



[Having opened our pages to the subject of " Garden Lists of Birds," 

 and drawn attention to the interest attached to same, our space will not 

 allow the insertion of further lists. — Ed.] 



EEPTILIA. 

 Smooth Snake in the New Forest. — I can confirm the experience of 

 my friend Mr. Corbin regarding this interesting reptile. My house stands 

 on the edge of Beaulieu Heath, in the Forest, and on July 6th, 1894, a 

 beautiful specimen was caught crawling up a laurel bush in our garden. I 

 intended to take it to the Zoological Gardens, but it escaped. It was freely 

 handled, and made to exhibit itself on the dining-room table, but did not 

 defend itself by stinking. Hampshire now claims all the British Reptiles 

 and Batrachians excepting the Turtles and the Edible Frog, but the latter 

 has been introduced into the marshes of the Itchen by Mr. T. A. Cotton, 

 of The Mount, Bishopstoke. — J. E. Kelsall (East Boldre, Southampton). 



PISCES. 

 Thresher Shark and Angel-fish at Lowestoft. — During a recent stay 

 at Lowestoft, on the morning of Sept. 11th, I saw a freshly-killed Thresher, 

 Alopecias vulpes, which was landed from the smack ■ Florence and May.' 

 There had been an unusually large take of Mackerel during the previous 

 night, and the fishermen told me that the shoals were met with about 

 twenty miles from Lowestoft. The Shark measured 42 in. in the body, 

 and the upper lobe of the caudal fin exactly another 42 in. There was 

 quite an unusual number of Angel-fishes, Rhina squatina, also landed during 

 the three weeks of my stay ; I must have seen at least four or five. The 

 fish-wharves at Lowestoft always repay a visit, and I have no doubt many 

 rare and interesting marine forms could be found in the refuse of the trawl- 

 nets, as well as in the maws of the deep-sea fishes. On Sept. 29th the 

 * Hastings Girl ' took a second specimen of the Thresher in her Mackerel 

 nets, which was also landed at Lowestoft, and I believe sent to London ; it 

 was much larger than that previously taken, measuring 6 ft. in the body 

 and the same in the whip-like tail, or 12 ft. in all. — Thomas Southwell 

 (Norwich). 



INSECTA. 



Wasp, Tipula, and Spider. — My attention was recently drawn to the 



struggles of a Wasp and a Tipula (Daddy Longlegs) in a Spider's web. I 



at first thought that they were fellow-captives, and that the Wasp had 



attacked the Tipula under the impression that he was the author of his 



