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REPORTS. 



we begin to understand what Wordsworth meant when he 

 spoke of 



" Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears." 

 Let me then once again recommend the Marine Section more 

 particularly to the younger members of our Society. 



My report then this year is almost entirely a record of 

 Mr. E. W. Sharp's work, which I think does him the greatest 

 credit. In Guernsey Mr. Sharp has only one new 44 find," 

 Hermoca dendritica. a new sea-slug found at Cobo. 



Last year I reported that I had found in Little Sark a 

 small colony of lovely little emerald green anemones which I 

 was, and still am, unable to get anyone to identify for me. 

 On visiting the pool, in which they were, this summer, to my 

 dismay I found them all gone, but upon searching the other 

 pools in the vicinity, I discovered a colony of about the same 

 size — about 20 — only a few feet away in a pool in which I am 

 certain there were none last year. Now the interesting point 

 arises, did the colony found last year migrate 4f en masse " to 

 their new quarters, which is hardly credible ; or are these the 

 offspring of the old colony which has disappeared ? If the 

 latter, it is remarkable that not a single specimen could be 

 discovered in any of the other pools around. 



Alderney has this year been the field of most of Mr. 

 E. W. Sharp's work, and his detailed report is printed further 

 on. This includes several rare species and two new finds : — 

 that exquisite little Anemone — BallanopJiyllia regia and 

 Lnceriiaria Campanulata, both of which, though given in 

 44 Ansted " have not been otherwise reported. 



Seeing that there is no record given in 44 Ansted " as 

 to when or where many of the rarer species were found or by 

 whom, or by whom they were identified, I think it is a question 

 how far the lists given in that book should be accepted. 



F. L. Tanner, Sec. Mar. Zool. Sect. 



Report of the Ornithological Section, 



It gives me great pleasure to be able this year to report 

 the occurrence of four birds which have not hitherto been 

 authentically included in the avifauna of the Sarnian Islands, 

 viz., the Jay, the Brown Owl, the Grey Lag Goose and 

 the Glossy Ibis. These are of course rare visitors, but ad- 

 ditions to our local list can only be expected among species 

 which from time to time straggle in our direction, or make a 

 brief stay in these islands during their annual migrations. 

 Including the four species now added, the total number of 



