338 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
yards from the tram terminus. Another nest and four eggs, 
built in a flower-pot lying on the ground, was presented by the 
owner, Mr. Boyes, a nurseryman at Aylestone, in May, 1885. 
The ‘ Leicester Daily Post’ for May 28th, 1885, states that the 
occupier of one of the Sparkenhoe allotment gardens discovered 
a Robin’s nest and brood in a disused meat-tin, which, having 
been emptied of its original contents, he had used for tar, and 
had thrown away. The eggs of the Robin vary considerably 
both in shape and tone, Mr. Davenport reporting a nest of six 
eggs, pure white, found near Ashlands in May, 1880. 
Daulias luscinia, Newton. Nightingale-—A summer migrant, 
sparingly distributed, and occasionally breeding. The latest 
date on which it was heard by Mr. Macaulay, who finds it every 
year in the vicinity of Kibworth (where it appears to be more 
common than in any other part of the county), was on June 24th, 
1879. Mr. Babington has noted its occurrence about Leicester, 
Rothley, Wanlip, &c. Harley found it at Whetstone Gorse, 
Buddon Wood, The Outwoods Loughborough, Stoneygate 
plantations, Birstal plantations, covers, and thick belts of 
plantations in other parts of the county. Mr. Ingram writes me 
that it arrives at Belvoir “in April, and frequents Barkstone, the 
Kennel Woods, and Calcraft’s Bushes, breeding in each of these 
woods.” Although I have been frequently told of its occurrence 
around Leicester, I never heard it until this year (1885), on the 
9th of May, in a spinney by the canal-side at Wistow. I have 
reason to believe that it nested this year at ‘‘ Leicester Frith,” 
the seat of Mr. T. Swift Taylor. 
(To be continued.) 
THE MOLLUSCA OF THE COUNTIES OF KENT, SURREY 
AND MIDDLESEX. 
By T. D. A. Cocxrretu. 
(Continued from p. 303.) 
Hyalina cellaria.— Minster; Orpington; Ealing; Bedford 
Park; Kenley. Var., opaque white, Minster and Kenley. Var., 
greenish white and semitransparent, near Wrotham; Folkestone 
Warren (A. H. Shepherd); [Maidenhead]. 
Var. compacta.—Surrey (M‘Kean). 
