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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
L/EMargus microcepiialus. a specimen of the Greenland 
Shark was captured at Caister near Great Yarmouth on the 
11th November, 1885. It was observed floundering amid the 
breakers in shoal water, and after being lassoed was dragged 
ashore. It was reported to have lived for some time after landing. 
Scoresby, in his work on the Arctic Eegions, refers to the 
insensibility to pain of this animal and the extreme difficulty 
of killing it. I saw this specimen four days after capture ; 
it was then exhibited in Yarmouth Market-place. Its colour 
was ashy-grey, length about thirteen feet. It was said by the 
exhibitor to have measured fifteen feet when first captured. The 
irides were blue, the pupil emerald green. I observed no parasites 
[Lemma) attached to the eye, as is very frequently the case with 
this species. Both upper and lower jaws were armed with three 
rows of teeth, those in the upper jaw agreeing Avith the plate in 
Yarrell’s ‘ British Fishes,’ vol. ii. — II. W. Feilden. 
Great Bustard. I wish to correct a statement I made last 
year in a little book published by Jarrold and Sons, as it might 
liossibly lead to confusion hereafter. I have described the capture 
of a Bustard on my estate at Ilerringfieet about the year 1847. 
Now it appears this bird was not killed at Ilerringfieet, but at 
Elveden in 1815, and Avas given to my late father (Henry M. Leathes) 
by his cousin, the Kcv. George R Leathes, by Avhom it AA'as 
purchased at Bury St. Edmund’s, and eventually presented to the 
Norwich !Museum in my name (Hill M. Leathes) in the year 1844. 
A letter describing tliis bird, and the above particulars, Avas Avritten 
many years ago by my late father to Mr. J. H. Gurney, and there 
is no doubt tliis is an authentic account. Full particulars of this 
occurrence are given in Stevenson’s ‘ Birds of Norfolk,’ vol. ii. 
p. 33. — H. Mussenden Leathes. 
