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larger than the others. These three fish had been swallowed head 
foremost,, and the two latter were entirely consumed by the gastric 
juice, except the bones and the hinder portions, which, not having 
come in contact with it, were uninjured. Jan. 3, 1837. An 
adult male shot on the river Bann at Portglenone came under my 
examination. Its weight was 3 lbs. 9 oz. Length 26-1 inches. 
Measurement of bill and wings as in the last. It contained an 
eel 11-! inches long, perfect and fresh-looking, except a little dis- 
coloration at the tail caused by the gastric juice. It lay tail 
foremost in the stomach, the eel being the most unaccommodating 
of fish in suiting itself to the wishes of its captors. There was 
another eel, much digested, which had been of similar size. The 
stomach also exhibited some small pebbles, and a full-grown 
Trochus cinerarius, About the I Oth of March, 1837, two adult 
males, which came under my notice, were shot in Belfast Bay, and 
on the 13th of February, 1839, as splendid an old bird of this 
sex as I have seen was killed on the river Lagan, near Lisburn. 
Fresh specimens of a nearly adult female shot at Down- 
patrick, and an immature male, obtained in Belfast Bay, have 
come under my inspection ; the former on the 24th of January; 
1848, and the latter on the 8th of December, 1849; an adult 
male was in company with the young bird. Early in March, 1850, 
an old male was distinguished in company with red-breasted 
mergansers on Lame Lough. 
On the 3rd of December, 1837, a male goosander (apparently 
in the plumage of the second year) was purchased in Dublin 
market : the dealer's name for it was “ land cormorant." About 
the 20th of January, 1838, a female w r as sent by Sir Richard 
Levinge, Bart., to Dublin to be preserved, and, on opening it, 
forty-nine perch, averaging three inches each in length, and a 
young pike, seven inches long, wrnre found.* I subsequently 
learned from this gentleman that the bird w r as shot at his seat, 
Kriockdrin Castle, Westmeath. On the 1st of December, 1842, 
a young male was obtained in the market of the metropolis, by a 
* Mr. H. H. Dombrain, 
