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up to them. There seems still to be a demand for sea-birds in some 

 milliners' shops, as the following advertisement from an address in 

 Essex recently appeared several times in a Yorkshire daily paper : 

 " Wanted, small sea-birds ; 1000 skins immediately ; cash " ; but the 

 extension of the close-time will be the means of saving hundreds of 

 Terns, though it is to be feared that a good many were slaughtered on 

 this coast early in September, as some gunners were " out on the 

 First" by daybreak. Both in East and West Suffolk some birds are 

 protected by the County Councils all the year through, and a similar 

 order forbidding the killing of '• Terns or Sea-Swallows of all species " 

 and Kittiwakes on the Yorkshire coast would be an excellent thing, 

 as readers of this Journal would have thought, had they seen the pro- 

 ceedings of two men in a rowing-boat near this town. I must admit 

 that nothing would have given me greater satisfaction than to have 

 heard that one of them had shot the other, a state of things which 

 seemed quite possible. — Julian G. Tuck (3, The Crescent, Bridlington). 



PISCES. 



Megrim and some other Fishes at Yarmouth. — On July 23rd I 

 received from a fish-hawker a small flat-fish, which I identified as the 

 Megrim (Amoglossus latema) ; it measured 4 in. in length. This is, 

 as far as I can ascertain, the first example of Megrim brought into 

 Yarmouth — at any rate, recognized. A great many fine Eels have 

 lately been taken both by net and hook at the entrance of the harbour. 

 An Eel was recently caught by a "pick," which, on being opened, was 

 found to contain two lesser Eels almost half as long as itself. I 

 observed a Common Gull (Larus canus) pick up a live 12-inch Eel and 

 swallow it, but its squirmings, which could be distinctly seen, made 

 the bird very uneasy, if not a bit frightened ; but it held on, and in 

 about five minutes the squirmings had ceased. A large " grey " Gull 

 . adroitly captured a large Eel, upwards of a pound in weight, but was 

 glad almost immediately to let it go again. Eels have been gorging 

 themselves on Shore-crabs (Carcinus manas). When caught they are 

 usually full of them. One, however, lately taken, had several Sand- 

 launces in its maw. On June 19th I obtained a Lemon Sole (Solea 

 lascaris), 8^ in. in length. — A. Patterson (Ibis House, Great Yarmouth). 



[The Megrim is reported by Howse as taken on the Yorkshire coast, 

 but rare. Sometimes brought into the Tyne by the trawlers ('Cat. 

 Fisbes, Kivers and Coast Northumb. and Durham and the adjacent 

 Sea').— Ed.] 



