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Field Notes. 



Pliilontlnis margiiuUits. F Silpha rugosa L. 



^Stenits jiino F. Hister unicolor L. 



,, biiphthalmus Crav. Aphodius luridus F. 



Necvophorus humator Goez. Chrysomela staphylea L. 



Silpha opaca L. Melasoma popiili L. 



* ,, thovacica L. Prasocuris jmici Brahm. 



The most interesting of these are Silpha thovacica, one 



specimen of which was taken by Mr. E. Sawyer, and Philhydrus 



coarctatus, both additional records for the East Riding. 



Melasoma populi was very abundant. T. S 



FIELD NOTES. 



BIRDS. 

 Cream = coloured Snipe at Horncastle. — In the middle 

 of January last, Mr. A. Hill, of Horncastle, shot, in a grass field, 

 within 200 yards of the Horncastle Market Place, a cream- 

 coloured Snipe, which was afterwards stuffed for Neville Lucas 

 Calcraft, Esq., J. P. , of Gautby. — J. Con way Walter, Horncastle. 

 Tragic Death of a Linnet. — Birds frequently meet with 



an untimely end through be- 

 coming entangled in their nesting 

 materials. In the March number 

 of ' The Naturalist,' I recorded 

 the death of a Swift by strangu- 

 lation ; early this month a 

 friend of mine noticed a 

 Linnet flying about a patch of 

 gorse with a lump of wool 

 attached to its leg. A week 

 later he was searching the same 

 gorse when he came across the 

 same bird, but unfortunately 

 the wool had become entangled 

 with the twigs near the nest, 

 and the bird was hung head 

 downwards quite dead. As in 

 the case of the Swift, the bird 

 in its struggles had turned 

 continually in one direction, 

 and the wool, as will be noticed 

 in the photograph, is very 

 tight and hard at the beginning 



\K. Foiluiu, F.Z.S. 



of the twist.— R. Fortune. 



Naturalist- 



