384 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Anodonta anatina, var. approaching complanata.— Near Twick- 
enham (E. H. Rowe). 
Valvata piscinalis monst. sinistrorsum.— Sunbury (Groves). 
[Mr. H. P. Fitzgerald sends me the following list of Mollusca 
recently taken by himself in the neighbourhood of Preston Can- 
dover, North Hants :—Valvata piscinalis var. depressa, Ancylus 
lacustris var. albida, Amalia marginata, and the dark variety before 
mentioned, Limax flavus, L. arborum, Helix aspersa var. tenwior, 
H. lapicida var. albina, and Vertigo edentula.] 
(Neretina fluviatilis var. cerina.—Christchurch (Ashford).] 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
The British Association.— The accounts received from Aberdeen 
concur in representing the meeting recently held there to have been a most 
successful one. A great number of papers were read in the different sections, 
some of which, owing to pressure of time, had to be divided into sub-sections. 
In Section D, Biology, the chief feature was the address of the President 
of the Section, Prof. W. C. McIntosh, on the Phosphorescence of Marine 
Auimals, a full report of which will be found in ‘ Nature’ for 3+ Lith. Sepdy 
Sir John Lubbock contributed an interesting paper on Ants, in continuation 
of former researches on the same subject; and a Report was read from the 
Committee appointed to collect evidence on the subject of the Migration of 
Birds. To this Report we hope to refer more particularly in our next 
number. 
MAMMALIA. 
Habits of the Squirrel—As the Sparrow is becoming a source of 
trouble to the agriculturist, so is this well-known rodent a cause of anxiety 
to the forester in those districts north of the Tweed where the Conifere 
flourish. The Squirrel has also another peculiarity in common with the 
Sparrow, t. ¢., that it is well known both in town and country ; in the former 
case he may be seen whisking round seemingly in endless rotation in his 
cage,—the delight of every small girl or boy that passes,—whilst he perhaps 
imagines each turn will bring him nearer to those pine-woods far away, 
where he was born. Whilst on the subject of cages, I recollect having long 
ago had a Squirrel in a cage, which, like most wild animals taken young, 
became very tame with kindness ; one day he escaped, taking up his abode 
in some fir-trees at some distance from the house; whenever my old nurse 
went near his new abode, on rattling her keys down he would come, for 
these selfsame keys opened the box in which his nuts were kept; at length 
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