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Birchanger. This neighbourhood seems to be well visited by the Woodpeckers, 

 as during the last three or four years I have seen the Green, the Great Spotted, 

 and the Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers, and one of the latter I shot in the winter of 

 18S9. In the spring of 1887 I assisted in taking a nest of the Hobby (^Falco 

 siihbuteo), an egg from which I have in m)- collection. The eggs were laid in a 

 nest from which we had taken Kestrels' only a fortnight before." 



Waxwings (Ampelis garrulus) at Harwich. — Mr. F. Kerry records in the 

 "Zoologist " for April, that on February 2jrd a Waxwing was shot at Harwich, 

 whilst feeding on privet berries. " It was either very fearless or stupid, for it 

 allowed several persons to place their hands within a few inches of it. On dissec- 

 tion it proved to be a female bird, and it has five wax-like appendages on each 

 wing. On March 4th another was killed by a boy with a stone. This was a male, 

 and is the finest bird of four killed in this neighbourhood, the wax-like append- 

 ages being larger than in any of the others, and numbering six on the right wing, 

 and five on the left." The Waxwings killed at Great Oakley (see E. N., ante, p. 

 23) were male and female, with four wax tips to each wing. Mr. Kerry has pur- 

 chased them, and the}' are now in his collection. Many records of Waxwings in 

 other parts of the country appear in the various natural histor}' journals. 



Helix Lapicida (Linn.) at Colihester. — When I wrote my account of the 

 " Land and Fresh-Water Mollusca of the District around Colchester" ("Trans. 

 Essex Field Club," vol. ii.) I mentioned (at page 95; the fact of finding a dead 

 shell of this species at Layer de la Haye. I thought then that it would probably 

 be found somewhere in this part of the county. I have to-day seen two speci- 

 mens that were taken by my little friend, who has, at my request, given me the 

 following note : " I found two specimens of this snail crawling on hedge-rubbish 

 on the Myland Road, Cslchester, between the church and the rectory, about the 

 last week in September, or the first week in October, 1892. — Philip Hakwood, 

 2, Brooklyn Villas, Colchester." The small boy's e3'es are, I suppose, sharper than 

 mine ; anyhow, I am glad to be enabled to add Helix lapicida to the list of Col- 

 chester snails. — HENRY Laver, F.L.S., Colchester, April i^th, 1893. 



Hesperia Lineola, Ochs., in Essex and Elsewhere. — Mr. Charles G. 

 Barrett, in his fine work on the " Lepidoptera ofthe British Islands," now in course 

 of publication, gives the following information respecting the occurrence of this 

 butterfl}', which is a species so interesting to the Essex naturalists. The infor- 

 mation may be taken as supplementing that given in Essex Naturalist, vol. 

 iv., p. 191 ; vol. vi., pp. 43 and 141. : — '' Of species now known to exist as 

 British, the present is the latest addition to the British fauna. In Jul}-, 1888, 

 Mr. F. W. Hawes, desiring to improve his series of U. linea, collected a number 

 of specimens in Essex, and, among them, brought home three which, after having 

 been for some time supposed to be varieties of that species, were ultimately 

 recognised as belonging to the present. In the following year specimens were 

 taken by Mr. J. T. Carrington, who had assisted Mr. Hawes in identifying the 

 species, and it has in the subsequent years been taken in plenty, the most 

 favoured locality being along the north bank of the Thames, at Leigh, Southend, 

 and Shoeburyness. Upon the publication of this discovery, much examination 

 of the specimens of H. linea in collections ensued, with in some cases satisfactory 

 (?) results. Mr. J. Jenner Weir found that it had been taken many years ago in either 

 Kent or Sussex ; Mr. H. W. Barker had found it in Sussex, on chalk formation ; 



