FIELD NOTES. 173 
BIRDS. 
Little Auk in .Wharfedale.—A little Auk was picked 
up. near here (in Barden) on March 1st, by Mr. W. Inman, 
gamekeeper ; a male in good plumage and condition.—T. 
Roose, Bolton Abbey. 
Shelduck near Hebden Bridge.—A mature drake was 
killed at Withens, Cragg Vale, on March 24th. The specimen 
is being preserved for the Morley museum, on whose water- 
works it occurred. The few previous known occurrences 
suggest that this is one of the rarest members of the Anatide 
on fresh water here.—WALTER GREAVES, Hebden Bridge. 
ARACHNIDA. 
Cumberland Arachnids.—In The Naturalist for March, 
pp. 103-105, Mr. Wm. Falconer gives a Bibliography relating 
to the Spiders, etc., of the North of England and other areas 
adjacent to Yorkshire. I do not know how far this is com- 
plete, but notice only one reference to Cumberland. 
It may not be generally known that the Avachnid fauna 
of this county has really been extensively studied by various 
naturalists during the last 20 years or so. The late F. O. P. 
Cambridge collected in both Cumberland and Westmorland 
during the period he was resident in Carlisle, and published 
a list in The Naturalist for 1895, pp. 29-48. Later (1901) 
he gave a list for Cumberland only in the Victoria History 
of the county, which included numerous records by Dr. Randall 
Jackson who was a frequent visitor to the Lake District. 
But all previous work was much extended and amplified 
by Mr. H. Britten, who was an assiduous and successful col- 
lector in Cumberland prior to his removal to Oxford, and who, 
in 1912, in the Trans. of the Carlisle Nat. Hist. Socty., pp. 30-65, 
catalogued over 300 species of Spiders, Harvestmen and Pseudo- 
scorpions, with localities and notes. This publication was 
briefly noticed in The Naturalist for 1912, p. 263.—F. H. Day, 
Carlisle. 
MAMMALS. 
Abnormal (?) Fox reported killed near Bingley.—In 
the Natural History column of The Field for March 5th (and 
also in the local press about the same date), a correspondent 
records the death of an abnormally huge dog Fox, at “‘ The 
Upwood,”’ near Bingley—the residence of the late Mr. Mitchell. 
It was reported to have turned the scales at 28 lbs. 14 ozs. !— 
an easy record, I should think, for the British Isles or else- 
where. Through the kind inquiries on my behalf, by Mrs. 
Cooke, (house-keeper at “ The Upwood,’’) I found it to be 
a made-up story ; concocted and circulated by a local “ stone- 
waller ’’ (a calling that is now fast dying out), who fills in his 
time with many odd jobs—including yarning! The Fox 

1916 May 1. 
