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least ; how long after that I don’t know. Next morning they 
had separated. The $ is evidently impelled to retain his 
grip upon the $ by a prolonged sexual impulse. After three 
and a half hours the $ repeatedly attempted penetration, the 
however, easily evaded the efforts of the £ by movements 
of the abdomen. On May 15th I found a few large, elongated 
white eggs in the vessels containing the two females. — M. 
Longbottom. 
Nightingale and Waxwings at Scarborough. — In 
addition to the records of Waxwings in the Scarborough 
district, printed in The Naturalist for March, 1933, the 
following have come under my notice : ‘ Six were seen 
feeding on cottoneaster berries in a garden in Alexander Park 
on February 20th. Two more were seen on February 27th 
in Stepney Drive.’ Both these localties are well within the 
Borough boundary. On May 1st a Nightingale took up its 
residence in Peasholme Glen, and sang almost nightly until 
May 26th. There is no evidence that it had a mate, or nested. 
This is the fourth authentic record for the Scarborough 
district. — W. J. Clarke. 
Rare Cephalopods at Scarborough. — On March 4th, 
1:933, while examining the contents of cods’ stomachs taken 
from fish caught about 12 miles N.E. off Scarborough, I found 
a complete example of Rossia macrosoma. This little creature 
does not appear to be very common in our water. On 
March nth, 1933, a female example of the Giant Squid, 
Ommastrephes sagittatus , measuring 3 ft. 11 in. over all was 
stranded on the North sands at Scarborough. Perfect when 
it first came ashore it was much mutilated by sight -seers 
before I got to it. The remains were sent to the British 
Museum. On March 31st, 1933, a very perfect little male 
example of 0 . sagittatus came ashore alive in the South Bay 
at Scarborough and was fortunately secured before anyone 
had the opportunity to pull it to pieces. It measured 34 in. 
over all and was sent to the Hull Museum. 0 . sagittatus 
appears to be stranded on the Yorkshire coast more frequently 
than any other of the large Squids. — W. J. Clarke. 
Ribbon fish at Robin Hood’s Bay, Yorks. — On 
Wednesday, May 3rd, 1933, a strange fish measuring 12 ft. 
in length, 12 in. broad, and 4J in. thick was found stranded, 
and not quite dead, at Robin Hood’s Bay by Mr. Oliver 
Storm. The colour was bright silvery with a blood-red 
dorsal fin extending the whole length of the body. The 
anterior rays on the top of the head were greatly elongated, 
two only remained unbroken and these measured 3 ft. 2 \ in. 
each in length. As usual, with these abyssimal fish which 
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