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thousand or more in number, collected in this neighbourhood, and 

 fed several weeks in a field of late peas, which was covered with 

 knotgrass and other weeds: amongst them I heard lesser redpolls, 

 sparrows and other finches. In spring the winter birds prolonged 

 their stay ; fieldfares were seen and heard here till the 2nd or 3rd 

 of May : in October they returned about their usual time. I notice 

 that redwings and fieldfares arrive very regularly. 



lu 18C8. In 1869. In 1870. 



Eedwings arrived . October 10th. October 19th. October 9th. 

 Fieldfares „ . „ 28th. „ 20th. „ 21st. 



Bramblings, bullfinches, tree sparrows and snipes appeared in 

 more than ordinary numbers, but T observed no goldcrests, and the 

 tree creeper only once. The following note, dated January 4th, 

 was communicated to me by Mr. C. Forrest, sen., who had received 

 it from a friend at Doncaster: — "The severe weather has brought 

 us many uncommon visitors. Sixteen specimens of the waxwing, 

 or^Bohemian chatterer, have been shot. A swan flew against the 

 telegraph-wires, and was captured by a railway porter. Hooded 

 crows have appeared on the high road." 



During the year two new shells have been added to the British 

 list: one was discovered in the Bolton Canal by Mr. Thomas 

 Rogers, of Manchester ; its scientific name is Planorbis dilatatus: 

 the other a land-shell, named Zonites glaber, was also brought into 

 notice by Mr. Rogers, though it appears to have been discovered 

 in this country, by Mr. J. G. Jeffreys, many years since, and 

 neglected. Zonites glaber has been found in Cheshire, Westmore- 

 land and Yorkshire. 



George Roberts. 



Lofthouse, near Wakefield. 



A Natural History Tour in Spain and Algeria.* 

 By J. H. GuRNEY, JuN., Esq. 



(Read before the Norwich and Norfolk Naturalists' Society on the a7th of September, 

 1870, and communicated by the author.) 



I LEFT Bayonne for the Spanish frontier on the 25th of December, 

 1869, little suspecting that five days would elapse before I got to 

 Madrid. As the train passed the pretty watering-place of Biarritz, 

 which lies in a district full of interest, not only as the haunt of the 



* I am indebted to my father for assistance in the identification of species. 



