470 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
plumage all through the winter when fully adult.” Writing on the 
Indian Dabchick (P. capensis), Mr. Finn (Zool. 1902, p. 303) records 
that a pair of these birds retained the summer plumage all the year 
round.—Gorpon Datewiess (Brook, Witley, Surrey). 
VERMES. 
Sea-Mouse near Plymouth. — A small specimen of the above 
(Aphrodite aculeata) was brought to me recently by a fisherman who 
caught it in the Millbrook Lake while fishing for winkles and shrimps. 
It is a curious little thing, and measures about three inches long by 
one and a half wide (they are usually about five or six inches long, so 
that this specimen is not full grown). Its upper surface is covered by 
a double row of broad membranous plates overlapping each other, 
beneath which are the aerating gills, like little fleshy crests. These 
plates are covered by a sort of hair which springs from their outer 
margin, and besides these the upper surface is beset with bundles of 
iridescent bristles, brilliant as the plumage of the Humming-bird, and 
of which metallic blue, green, and gold are the predominating colours. 
The head is furnished with tentacular cirrhi, and tufts of bristles as 
well as tentacular limbs spring from each segment of the body.— 
Witit1AM HEarper (195, Union Street, Plymouth). 

Erratum.—In my note on “ Old Local Bird Names” (ante, p. 431) 
the old local name of the Common Heron in South Pembrokeshire 
should be ‘ lougie-crane,” and not ‘“‘hougie-crane’’ as is printed.— 
H. B. Boots (Ben Rhydding, Yorkshire). 


NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 

Bird-Hunting through Wild Europe. By R. B. Lopes. 
Robert Culley. 
We well remember the astonishment experienced a few years 
ago on being told by an eminent geographer that there were 
still remote spots in South-east Kurope that would well repay 
the journey of an explorer. Mr. Lodge has travelled in many 
parts of this wild country, and has written a book which, as 
might be expected, and as all naturalists desired, is largely 
ornithological in character. That Albania is a wild country 
is undeniable from the terse verdict of Mr. Lodge: ‘‘ There are 
no roads, no bridges, no law, no protection, no justice for any- 
