230 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



The colour of this species is a pale yellowish white, often, 

 however, tinged with red. 



Corystes Cassivelaunus is a rather deep-water species, usually 

 found in the laminarian zone ; and appears not to have occurred 

 very commonly when Bell wrote his work. He records it from 

 Wales, Torquay, Sandgate, Scarborough, Hastings, Cornwall, 

 and also from Ireland. We have obtained it from Weymouth, 

 Teignmouth, Torbay, and in considerable numbers some distance 

 off the Sussex coast, where it was also thrown upon the shore in 

 thousands during the great storm of January, 1881. 



(To be continued.) 



OCCASIONAL NOTES. 



Pink Mautkn and Polecat in Lincolnshire. — I have much pleasure 

 in recording the occurrence of the Pine Marten near Bardney, in Lincoln- 

 shire; the specimen (which I have just seen at Mr. Barber's, taxidermist, 

 Lincoln, and which he asked me to record) was caught in a trap a few 

 weeks ago: it was unfortunately very much mauled by dogs. As many 

 inquiries have been made lately in various quarters as to the extinction 

 of this animal in Lincolnshire and other districts, the capture is very 

 interesting. A Polecat was taken near Grantham two or three months ago : 

 this animal seems to be becoming very rare in this district. — W. W. Fowler 

 (Lincoln). 



Notes of the Nuthatch and Lessek Spotted Woodpecker. — The 

 correspondence recently published in ' The Zoologist' on this subject, taken 

 in connection with a letter received a short time since from Mr. J. H. 

 Gurney, jun., and a conversation with Prof. Newton, convince me of the 

 great difficulty — to say no more — of attempting to translate into words the 

 sounds made by many birds or other animals. In my communication 

 (Zool. 1882, p. 149) I took it for granted that Mr. J. Young and I were 

 alluding to the same note or sound, described by him as "churring," a 

 sound he attributed (/. c. p. 113) to the Nuthatch, but which I believed to 

 be that of the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker. Mr. C. B. Wharton il. c. p. 1 89) 

 is confident that the sound we allude to is that of the Nuthatch, and 

 wonders why we should call it "churring"! Tt seems now to me more 

 than probable that we are all three of us alluding to different notes, and 

 therefore possibly to different birds as their cause. I will not add to the 

 evident assumptions and confusion of the mutter by attempting to give a 



