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Mactra solida is found at low- water mark (of spring tides only), opposite New 

 Brighton, inclining westward ; M . stultorum in the same locality, where also 

 occur Natica glaucina, Donax trunculus, Solen ensis, and occasionally Venus 

 gccllina and Mactra subtruncata. This last is plentiful about the lighthouse 

 southward. Amphidesma compressum is very common about Formby. Cyclas 

 eornea is in almost all the ponds. Pholas candidus is found in the clay at 

 extreme low- water mark, near the lighthouse, westward ; also in the peat opposite 

 Leasowes, near the lighthouse, westward, inside the muscle bank, and difficult to 

 get at without a boat, the ground being dangerous to wade upon. I found it once 

 only, and my subsequent attempts all failed ; but if the place can be hit upon 

 it is plentiful enough, and may be considered a rare shell ; it appeared exactly 

 opposite New Brighton. Pholas candidus is very abundant there, and it is 

 surprising how seldom a live shell is seen in any cabinet. I never met with one 

 that I have not supplied from your neighbourhood." — Thomas Glover, Man- 

 chester. 



I have ascertained two of the Echini found with us to be E. spatagos and E. 

 esculentus. We have about twenty species of Sertularia, and a few Turbularice 

 and Flustrce with us, a list of which I will forward when I get my specimens 

 named by some competent person. At the same time I hope to be able to send 

 some remarks on the Molluscous animals of the neighbourhood of Liverpool. 



In conclusion, I may mention that Thomas Glover, Esq., has liberally sup- 

 plied the museum of the Royal Institution with most of the shells which he found 

 in this neighbourhood, as well as some from other localities. — T. B. Hall, 

 Woodside, Liverpool, April 9, 1838. 



Turtle Dove Shot near Scarborough. — A young Turtle Dove was shot 

 near this town in October, 1834, and is now in my possession. — Patrick Hawk- 

 ridge, Scarborough, Aug. 7, 1837. 



Mshna versus Mschna. — Mr. Stephens states, in his Catalogue, p. 303, that 

 Mr. Curtis was in error in employing Mschna for Mshna ; but, in Nom., 2nd 

 edition, he (Mr. Stephens) adopts it also ! — J. C. Dale, Glanville's Wootton, 

 Dorsetshire, July 9, 1837. 



Sparrow's Nest in January. — "We have had brought to our office a Sparrow's 

 nest containing four eggs, and found in the roof of a cottage in Portlandfold. — 

 Sheffield Mercury, Jan. 13, 1838. £We presume it was the frigid character of 

 the weather during the second week in January which induced the Sparrow in 

 question to build a nest at so unseasonable a period ; or perhaps the frost acted in 

 some way unknown to us, upon the brain of one of the penny-a-line writers for 

 the Sheffield Mercury. If we might be allowed to speculate upon the matter, 

 we would suggest, either that the cold had rendered the said reporter liable to 



