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rooks, apparently ciware of some impending change, deserted their old home for 

 another wood near by ; and, though the trees have not been taken down, they 

 have never yet returned to them ? — (Mrs.) J. Smith, Great Saling. 



An Albino Coot at St. Osyth.— Mr. A. B. Farn, of Mount Nod, Green- 

 hithe, writes in the " Zoologist " for April: — "On June 1st, 1891, I received in 

 the down and in the i^esh an Albino Coot, Fulica atra, from the neighbourhood of 

 St. Osyth. It was probably not more than four or five days old. The crimson 

 and yellow hair-like processes on the head were as in an ordinary immature Coot 

 of similar age. The legs were pale orange and the eyes red. With these 

 exceptions the bird was white. Retaining the crimson and yellow on the head 

 appears to me to be a curious circumstance." 



Salmon and Salmon Trout at Heybridge. — We take the following from 

 the "Essex Weekly News" of April 8th, 1892 : — "On Sunday morning, George 

 Clarke captured a salmon trout at the mouth of the locks at Heybridge Basin, 

 where the Chelmer Navigation joins the river Blackwater. The tide was low at 

 the time, and Clarke caught the fish with his hands, lying bodily on it in order to 

 secure his prey. The fish scaled 10 lbs. 



"On Monday afternoon, a well-known fisherman named Hayward, while 

 working his nets above FuUbridge, caught a splendid salmon weighing 22 lbs. 

 The fish made a bold stroke for his liberty, and soon broke through the net ; but 

 Hayward, aided by the ebbing tide, was enabled to get him into the net once 

 more and to keep him there till transferred to his punt. 



" The fish were sold to Mr. O. A. French, fishmonger, Maldon, and pronounced 

 by him to be in excellent condition, meeting with a ready sale." 



Paludestrina (Hydrobia) jenkinsi. — An interesting note, by Mr. B. B. 

 Woodward, F.G.S., etc., on the radulae of P. jenkinsi, Smith, and P. ventrosa, 

 Mont., with illustrations of each, appears in " The Annals and Magazine of 

 Natural History," for May, p. 376. The differences which obtain in the shape 

 and number of the teeth give an additional confirmation to the validity of the 

 new species. In P. jenkinsi the number varies from 420 to 490 ; whilst P. 

 ventrosa shows from 280 to 315. Reference is also made in the note to my 

 figure of P. jenkinsi in E. N., iv., p. 214. — WALTER CROUCH, May 3rd, 1892. 



Stratiotes aloides at Great Saling. — I find that this plant still grows in 

 the pond near Pattiswick Hall as described by Gibson in his " Flora of Essex." 

 I have known it to grow there for nearly fifty years. — (Mrs.) J. Smith, Great 

 Saling. 



Roman and British Coins found near Epping. — Mr. Benjamin 

 Winstone has sent us the following extracts from the " Gentleman's Magazine," 

 for 1821 (page 66), which he thinks likely to be of interest in connection with 

 enquiries as to the character and age of the various pre-historic remains in the 

 neighbourhood. Mr. Winstone has kindly presented the block of the coin here 

 given : — 



Mr. John Barnard of Harlow, Essex, has fa\oured us with a British coin 



