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Black Tern. Often conies up tlie Thames. I have seen it at Chertsey, 

 and at Windsor. At the latter place, Eton rather, a shoemaker, of the name 

 of Wrigginton, shot one in 1825, and had it stuffed. 



Great Black Backed Gull. Called saddle-hack in Hampshire. I 

 once saw one following a plough with other gulls in a field near the sea at 

 Tetney, the only one alive and in freedom I was ever within shot, of. The 

 young I have often shot, and eaten. Properly dressed they are equal to hare. 



Herring Gull. I have shot close to my house in Tetney. 



Eichardson's Skua. One was shot in May 1859, at Sutton, by Eev. 

 C. Mason, of Bilsby who had it preserved. It was a male of the previous 

 year, and was shot after the great storm which occurred on Whit Monday of 

 that year. 



Storm Petrel. I caught one in the run in Stokes' Bay in the autumn 

 of 1828. The men in the preventive house tried to keep it alive but it soon 

 died. 



A CO^s^CHOLOGICAL VISIT TO COOPEE'S HILL. 



By W. Nelson. 



On the 1 7th of April, being in the neighbourhood of Gloucester, I made 

 my way to Cooper's Hill. On arriving I found quite a chain of hills. The 

 one I ascended is about a mile from the foot to the summit. The day was 

 very warm, and climbing the hill very hard work, so that I had often to rest on 

 the ascent. Beside a hedge bank I found an abundance of that curiously 

 sculptured shell Cyclostoma elegans ; I gathered sufficient of these in a 

 short time and then continued the ascent of the hill. Shortly afterwards I 

 found the lens-shaped Helix lapicida, also Pujja secale, the latter are rather 

 awkard to collect being on the edges of small loose stones and much scattered 

 about. I now got to the top of the hill and found myriads of dead specimens 

 of Helix virgata, but not one live one could I find^ which is easily accounted 

 for, seeing that they appear later in the year than most of their congeners. 

 There are some fine views of the surrounding country to be obtained from the 

 top of this hill ; but being intent on collecting I at once passed into a large 

 wood, composed chiefly of beech trees, and in searching among the dead leaves 

 I found Clausilia laminata but only very sparingly ; it requires much dili- 

 gence in searching for them ; the silence in the wood was intense, and it 



