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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
Grey Seal fHalichoims gryplms) on Breydon. — At our 
Meeting in March, 1882, I Avas able to record the occurrence 
of an adult female Grey Seal and her young one, in the 
Wash, near Lynn {antea p. 415), which I then stated was 
the first knoAvn occurrence of this species on the Norfolk coast. 
A second instance has since come under my notice; and I am 
inclined to think that other individuals of the same sjDccies 
have been seen or killed, which I have not been successful in 
tracing. 
On the 28th November, 1882, a young female Grey Seal was shot 
on Breydon, Avhich I saw tAvo days after in the flesh at Yarmouth. 
It measured 4 ft. 3 in. in length to the end of the hind flipper, 
tail 4 inches, and Aveighed 58 lbs; The belly and throat Avere 
nearly Avhite, tlie upper parts steel-grey, irregularly splashed Avith 
dark-broAvn blotches very sparingly about the sides and back, 
but more conspicuously on the head and back of the neck. 
The claAvs of the fore flippers Avere very long, being 1|^ in. 
(in the old female previously recorded the corresponding claAV 
Avas 2 -^ in. long, and in the young one 1|- in.) ; the claAA's 
of the hind flippers Averc also long, but Aveak and flattened. 
]\Ir. W. W. Spelman, of Yarmouth, for Avhom the Seal has 
been preserved, very kindly alloAved me to bring aAvay the 
head, and I have prepared tlie cranium, Avhich is noAv in the 
Noi’Avich Museum. — T. Southavell. 
