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flock of Knots, Redshanks, and Dunlins near Connah's Quay. On the 

 following day Mr. C. Oldham saw many flocks between Parkgate and 

 West Kirby. He estimated that one of these flocks contained at least 

 two thousand birds, and another perhaps half that number. — T. A. 

 Coward (Bowdon, Cheshire). 



Interesting Acquisitions by the Grosvenor Museum, Chester. — A 

 very remarkable form of Kestrel-Hawk (Falco tinnunculus), sex (?), 

 has been taken in North Wales, and presented to the Natural History 

 Museum, Chester, by R. Farmer, Esq. Having never before seen a 

 more remarkable and beautiful variety of the Falconince, I thought it 

 worthy of record. The structure of the colour-markings is almost 

 identically the same as in the type, but the colour is of a light fawn 

 and greyish white. Variety of Blue Tit (Pants cmruleus), sex (?), shot 

 near Chester, and presented to the Natural History Museum, Chester. 

 Head, neck, wings, and tail French grey ; back and under parts 

 canary-yellow ; eyes pink. Size rather smaller than the type. A very 

 remarkable form. I was told that the bird seemed semi-domesticated 

 when alive. — Alfred Newstead. 



PISCES. 



Flying Fish reported from Yarmouth (?). — The records in ' The 

 Zoologist ' of the occurrence of Flying Fish on the Kentish coast are 

 interesting, and recalled to mean account of one whose "fin" was 

 exhibited in the Fisheries Exhibition in London in 1883. I have 

 hunted up a catalogue of exhibits made by the well-known Norwich 

 naturalist, Mr. T. E. Gunn, and find the following : — 



" Case 50, Flying Fish. — Fin of Flying Fish (Exoccetus volitans) ; 

 specimen caught off Yarmouth, May 23rd, 1868. . . . Only known 

 instance on this part of the eastern coast. I submitted it to the late 

 Dr. J. E. Gray, of the British Museum, who identified the species 

 for me." 



For many years I have watched for an example to turn up, 

 but as yet without success. I have not included this " capture " in 

 my ' Nature in Eastern Norfolk,' for the simple reason that neither 

 in the second edition of Lubbock's ' Fauna of Norfolk,' nor in any of 

 the 'Transactions' of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, 

 is Mr. Gunn's specimen referred to. It would be as well, however, 

 for all east coast naturalists to be on the qui vive, and help to more 

 firmly establish the claim of this fish to be upon the Norfolk list. — 

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



