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Puffin. — A friend and I saw three at Baggy Point last January. 

 The weather was quite calm, and I cannot imagine what induced this 

 oceanic species to seek the shelter of the coast at that time of the year. 

 In the summer I picked up two dead ones on the sands at Santon after 

 a gale. They are, of course, very common at Lundy during the 

 breeding season. 



Pintail. — About two years ago a fisherman named Mock shot 

 several ducks of this species in the estuary of the Taw. I believe that 

 they are now in the hands of the local taxidermist. 



Great Black-backed Gull. — This and the Lesser Black-backed 

 are constantly seen in the winter months on our river. They are said 

 to breed at Lundy. — Bruce F. Cummings (Barnstaple). 



VERMES. 



Malformed Earthworm. — An Earthworm " with two tails," pre- 

 cisely similar to that figured in your Journal (ante, p. 398), but smaller, 

 was exhibited at a meeting of the Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists' 

 Club seven years ago by Mr. H. M. Foster, a local naturalist, who 

 had obtained it whilst digging for worms at Hull. It is still preserved 

 in spirits, but has shrunk in size. — T. Sheppard (Museum, Hull). 



A Query. — Answers to some of the queries in your Journal by 

 Major Barrett-Hamilton relating to Bats will be found in an article by 

 Mr. A. Whitaker, " On the Breeding Habits of Bats," in the November 

 ' Naturalist.' — T. Sheppard (Museum, Hull). 



