458 MR. A. H. PATTERSON ON YARMOUTH NATURAL HISTORY. 
the Porbeagle Shark was captured by a sea angler fishing off 
Yarmouth. 
December 30th. A very interesting variety of the Black 
Rat ( Muts rattus) was taken in a trap in one of the local ware- 
houses. Along the back from the nape of the neck to the 
base of the tail ran a narrow yellowish-white mark ; the 
abdomen was of the same hue, as was each leg. 
I might add, in conclusion, that the majority of fish records 
were published in the “Zoologist” of December, 1911, and 
January, 1912. i 
AN EAGLE FORTY YEARS OLD. 
The accompanying photograph by our President, Mr. R. 
Gurney, gives the portrait of a White-shouldered Eagle 
( Aquila adalberti, Brehm) which belonged to my late father, 
and which having been procured in May, 1872, from the nest, 
is now over forty years old. It was taken in Spain with 
another young one by the late Lord Lilford, in the pine 
forests at the mouth of the Guadalquiver. It is still in 
pretty good health, and looks like living. 
J. H. Gurney, Keswick Hall. 
XV. 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
Wild Bird Protection on the Norfolk Coast. — The 
Reports, for the year 1911, of the four Bird Protection 
Societies in the County have been received, and all show a 
satisfactory record. It was estimated by the watcher at 
Wells that the number of Common and Lesser Terns’ nests 
last year was about three hundred, of which the large 
majority were of the former species. In the same locality 
the Black-headed Gull is gradually increasing in numbers as 
a nesting species, and some twenty nests were found last 
season. 
