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Large Turbots. — Two on Wharf, February 1st, 189G. Respec- 
tively 29 lbs. and 30 lbs., after being gutted. 
Sole, variety. — A curiously rounded Sole was brought me on 
February 25th, 1896. Length 7 1 inches ; extreme width 4-J inches. 
Was at least three inches less in length than a fish that width 
should be. — A. Patterson, Hon. Sec. Great Yarmouth Section. 
Migration Notes from Lowestoft. — As circumstances obliged 
me to spend the spring and summer in the North (Jlilf, Lowestoft, 
1 spent my spare time in observing the birds frequenting the North 
Hills and Denes, and oiler the following brief notes. 
'1'he birds that I noticed migrating were Redstarts, Cuckoos 
(I counted a flock of fifteen), Yellow Wagtails, Ring Ousels, Turtle 
Doves, Wheatears. 
On October 15th and lGth a strong wind from N.N.W. was 
blowing, and I observed migrants coming in all day. I could, with 
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my telescope, see them far out at sea, and watched them making 
for the land. They all seemed to come ashore at the same point, 
(between the lighthouse and the yacht pond). I observed Rooks, 
Royston Crows, Starlings, and Peewits. The Rooks, Royston 
Crows, and Starlings came over in small flocks (twenty to thirty) : 
they ilcw a few yards above the sea, rising higher as they 
approached the shore, and some giving voice when the land was 
reached. A few alighted on the Denes, but the majority flew on 
inland. The Peewits formed one large bunch, and came flying 
across the sea, about a hundred yards above it : they went inland 
without stopping. One of the Rooks was nearly drowned within 
a hundred yards of the shore, and had the greatest difficulty in 
reaching the land. — P. H. Emerson, B.A., M.B. (Cantab.). 
Aculeate hymenoptera at Tostook, near Bury St. Edmund’s. 
— The past summer and autumn — the most beautiful I ever 
remember — gave me abundance of field-work. Strange enough, 
without looking for them, I obtained four additions to my list 
of Aculeate Hymenoptera (vol. vi pp. 36 — 4G) which I may as well 
record. Leptothorax Nylanderi, Foerst. Under dead bark of Black 
Poplar, three specimens, September 5th. Stenamma Westwoodi, 
West. One in nest of Bomhus fenvstris, September 11th. Crabro 
Pubcscens, Shuck. Bred from stump, August 1st. Crabro Ivollari, 
Dhlb [//fMra/Ms]. On a dead stump, September 1st. 
From wasps’ and bees’ nests I obtained a large number of 
