86 Lincolnshire Notes & Queries. 



This shell is extremely abundant at Kelsey Hill ballast pits, 

 north of the H umber, in conjunction with bones of bison, 

 leptorhine rhinoceros, and elephant. A narrow band of red 

 chalk known as the Hunstanton red chalk is traceable all 

 through Lincolnshire from Gunby to South Ferriby. The 

 summit of the wold near Pelham's Pillar is 456 feet above sea- 

 level ; the highest point is probably near Normanby clump, 

 about 549 feet. On the western slope of the wolds below 

 Caistor, and running south, there are a series of ironstones, 

 sandstones, and clays to which the term Neocomian has been 

 applied. 



Still following the sectional line we find the Kimmeridge 

 clay represented in a narrow band, estimated at 600 feet in 

 thickness ; then in succession Oxford clay and Kellaway rocks, 

 passing into the cornbrash and great oolites, forming an 

 elevated belt of varying breadth through the length of the 

 county. The Liassic clays and marlstones are defined by a 

 narrow belt ten to twelve miles wide in the south, and running 

 off to a mile in width near the Humber. Lastly, on the 

 slopes of the Trent Valley are the oldest rocks in the county, 

 the Keuper sandstone. 



Up to the present date Lincolnshire compares unfavourably 

 with other counties * in having no published list of the 

 Mammalia found within its bounds. The last and most 

 interesting addition to the fauna was the wild cat (Felts catus) 

 shot in the early part of March, 1883, in a small plantation 

 close to Bullington Wood, near Wragby. f The marten is 

 sparingly distributed in the chain of great woodlands which 

 extends from Wragby to Bourn, and from information recently 

 acquired, we are inclined to think it will be many years before 

 it becomes extinct. The polecat is common ; the otter still 

 lingers in the north and south ; the badger probably more 

 abundant than in any of the midland counties. The common 

 seal is frequently seen on the coast in the autumn, and on that 

 labyrinth of great sandbanks in the Wash, between Lynn and 

 Wainfleet of which some, like the Dogshead and Knock, and 

 Seal's Bank, are only covered at 'high spring tides there has been 



* The list of Yorkshire Mammalia, in Clarke and Roebuck's Vertebrata, 

 includes forty-five species out of a possible sixty-nine. In Mr. T. Southwell's list 

 for the county of Norfolk, altogether forty-one species are named. 



j- For a detailed account of the capture see Tkt Naturalist, Sept. 1884, p. 33 j 

 Zoologist, Sept. 1884, pp. 360-1 j Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich 

 Naturalists' Society, Vol. III., p. 67 6a. 



