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what, I presume, she had wanted him to do ; and had made use of a 

 stereotyped gesture of supplication for the purpose. — F. Finn (Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta). 



Correction. — In my note on the Yellow-billed Cuckoo (ante, p. 26), 

 I regret to find I made a mistake in stating that a specimen was 

 obtained on the shores of the Menai Straits in October, 1900. The 

 date should have been Nov. 10th, 1899.— Kobert H. Bead (Bedford 

 Park, London, W.). 



PISCES. 



Notes from Great Yarmouth. — Some most interesting examples of 

 piscine aberrancies have lately passed through my hands, which are 

 probably worth recording. The first — a freshly-caught hybrid Turbot- 

 Brill — was purchased on the fish-wharf for me, on Jan. 13th, by Mr. 

 B. Beazor, a local fish salesman, to whom I am indebted for securing 

 me several good things. The fish weighed about five pounds. Its 

 peculiarities may be described as follows : — The head and general 

 shape resembled the Turbot ; the upper skin decidedly the Brill in 

 markings, touch, and colour, and without the spiny protuberances so 

 noticeable in the Turbot. The tail was that of the Brill, and the 

 under surface was, to my mind, more scaly than the Turbot. I sent 

 it to Mr. Southwell, from whom it passed to Mr. Lydekker, who, I 

 believe, has placed it in the National Museum. 



On Jan. 29th I inspected a strange thing in the shape of a com- 

 bined roe and milt, taken from a Herring opened on Mr. Blanchflower's 

 potting premises. The " combine" was fully adult; two-thirds of it, 

 from the fore-end, was well-defined roe, the posterior end being 

 distinctly milt, spliced in after the fashion of a finger inserted into a 

 linen-peg. A continuous skin-like membrane along the upper part 

 connected the whole. 



I had recently brought to me, by a sea-angler fishing from the 

 jetty, the backbone of a Whiting, which was most peculiarly mis- 

 shapen, reminding one somewhat of a flattened corkscrew. The 

 angler had noticed the odd undulations in the fish before cooking it, 

 and saved me the strange vertebrae. — A. Patterson (Ibis House, Great 

 Yarmouth). 



Zool. 4th ser. vol. VI., February, 1903. 



