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for some special purpose, and although no direct testimony can be 

 given by me as to the Gull's egg-eating propensity, the presumptive 

 evidence during my stay was so cumulative as almost to amount to a 

 demonstration. In this neighbourhood I had suspected this habit for 

 some years, but the data rested upon insufficient evidence. From a 

 humanitarian point of view I have been somewhat reluctant to men- 

 tion the above conclusions, but sentiment should not blind us to the 

 true nature of facts. — G. P. Butterfield (Wilsden). 



Little Auk in Derbyshire. — When at Sudbury in June last I 

 had an opportunity of inspecting a hitherto unrecorded specimen of 

 the Little Auk, Mergulus alle (L.), which is in the possession of Mr. 

 J. Bottrell, of Sudbury. It was picked up dead on the ice of Sudbury 

 Pond on November 29th, 1904, and sent to A. S. Hutchinson, who 

 fortunately noted the date on the case. The bird had been seen about 

 the pond for a day or two previously, and it is interesting to note that 

 another example was shot on the Trent near Donington Park on 

 November 24th, within a day or two of the same time ('Zoologist,' 

 1906, p. 139). — Francis C. K. Jourdain (Clifton Vicarage, Ashburne, 

 Derbyshire). 



Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) on the Suffolk Coast. — On Sept. 30th 

 I received from a gentleman in Lowestoft a parcel containing the 

 head, feet, and wings of a Fulmar Petrel, which he had a day or two 

 before picked up, evidently uninjured but dead, on the beach at 

 Corton, two or three miles north of Lowestoft. The head was perfectly 

 white, and the bird was undoubtedly fully adult. Like two or three 

 others I have myself met with thrown up by the tide, I have no doubt 

 the bird had gilled itself in the Herring-nets on the fishing-grounds 

 and been drowned, to be thrown back overboard and carried south and 

 shorewards by the tides. From report, this species appears to be by 

 no means rare thirty or forty miles out in October, consorting with 

 the Gulls, which find a genial occupation among the Herring shoals. — 

 Arthur H. Patterson (Ibis House, Great Yarmouth). 



ARACHNIDA. 



Chelifer cancroides (Linn.) in Manchester. — This false Scorpion is 

 well enough known to naturalists, but can hardly be called an abun- 

 dant species in this country. Our present authority on the group, 

 Kev. 0. Pickard-Cambridge, when writing his Monograph in 1892, 

 could refer to only four British specimens, all taken in London, and 

 now in the British Museum. Since that date the species has been 



