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REPORTS. 



In July I observed a specimen of the " Sea-horse" (Hippo- 

 campus brevirostris) clinging by its tail to a tuft of sea-weed 

 (Zostera) a little to the N. of Bordeaux harbour. Although 

 I was able to get several times within a foot of it, I was 

 unable to catch it. At the October meeting I showed a 

 specimen of the so-called " Glass-crabs," which is now known 

 to be only the condition in which the young c ray-fish first 

 emerges. When first obtained it was perfectly transparent 

 and probably only a day or two old. During the week that 

 I managed to keep it alive two distinct eyes appeared and 

 also a decided yellowish pigmentation became visible. It will 

 be added to our Museum. 



A remarkable sight was to be seen on Saturday, Dec. 9, 

 at low tide, on the beach at the right hand side of the Castle 

 Breakwater. Just above low-water mark were thousands of 

 the curious little sucker-fish (Lepadogaster Cornubiensis) and 

 amongst them several specimens of the much rarer form 

 (Lepadogaster Montaguii). 



The only other occurrence worthy of being reported is 

 the unusual number of sharks and whales which have visited 

 our coasts this summer. 



Several Blue Sharks Avere seen or taken in the fishing 

 nets at Rocquaine — one over 16 feet in length. 



They are generally described as sleeping by day and 

 going on their marauding expeditions by night ; but one 

 which favoured us with its attention, while fishing from the 

 Grande Moie Rocks off the East Coast of Sark in September 

 proved that it, at all events, was not above stealing a meal 

 even at mid-day ; in its efforts to do so coming so close to 

 the rocks that it was possible to hit it with the rod. 



During October a couple of whales visited Cobo Bay, 

 where they disported themselves for three days, easily visible 

 from the shore. 



F. L. Tanner, Sec, Marine Zoology Section. 



Report of the Ornithological Section, 1911. 



In the paper I read at our last monthly meeting 

 (November) entitled " Are Guernsey Birds British?" (which, 

 as you will remember, was based on a correspondence which 

 ran through several months of the Zoologist of 1872), I 

 incidently mentioned that the volume also contained a number 

 of local Ornithological Notes contributed by Mr. Cecil 

 Smith and Miss C. B. Carey. The notes refer to the arrival 

 and departure of the migratory birds that visit our shores at 



