Ornithological Notes. 
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large frog was much altered by the digestive process, but its 
hind legs, which projected upwards into the gullet, were 
very little changed. The caput caecum was small, measur- 
ing only about one-eighth of an inch, and had no projecting 
csecal appendages. Another specimen, a female, was also 
examined ; it was shot in October last, between Ayton and 
Coldingham, Berwickshire. 
(6.) Podiceps cristatus (Penn.) Great Crested Grebe, 
{^^ pellet" in stomach). — The specimen exhibited was shot in 
the Firth of Forth, near Queensferry, on 27th January 
1862. It measured 21 inches in length ; wing from carpal 
joint to point of primaries, 7J inches. Bill nearly two 
inches in length, of a pale carmine tint, with a dusky stripe 
along its ridge, and tip of greyish white ; small white spot 
between eye and bill. In wing, the primaries are brown, 
one or two of the last being slightly tipped with white ; 
secondaries pure white, with the exception of two or three 
of the last feathers, which are more or less tipped with 
brown, and the coverts of the primaries and secondaries are 
brown ; the humeral feathers and their coverts are pure 
white, and this white colour runs forward along the lesser 
coverts at the anterior margin of wing, gradually diminish- 
ing in breadth towards the carpal joint. The scapulars are 
dark-brown or greyish -brown, like the rest of the back. The 
expanded wing, therefore, displays the primaries brown, 
and a broad band of brown obliquely crossing the white 
wing from the carpal joint to the points of the last secon- 
daries. The axillaries are white. Feet and legs greenish- 
brown on outside ; inside, pale yellowish-green. The bird 
is a female ; the muscular gizzard measured 2J inches in 
length, with a thick, rugose cuticular lining ; it contained 
a nearly dry rounded mass, about the size of a small walnut, 
which, when broken up by the finger, was seen to consist of 
various black and white feathers, apparently taken from the 
bird itself, and the remains of what appeared to be the spines 
and skins of shrimps or other crustaceans. Masses of this 
kind have been often noticed in the stomach of this bird, 
and have been variously described. The pyloric orifice of 
the stomach was seen to be very small, and it was at once 
