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FIELD NOTES. 



Barbastelle Bats at Helmsley. — In my notes on York- 

 shire Bats {ante p. 302), the length from the thumb joint or 

 wrist to the tip of the wing in the adult female should have 

 been 2};! ins., and not 2 ins. as given. — H. B. Booth. 



Whiskered Bats near Appleby. — In August, Mr. F. H. 

 Edmondson brought a small bat, which proved to be a female 

 Whiskered Bat, Myotis mystacimis. He informed me that it 

 was one of about forty that flew out of a hole in a tree near 

 to Appleby. By the size of the mammae it was evident that 

 it had recently been suckling young. — H. B. Booth, Ben 

 Rhydding. 



Great Crested Grebe and Little Owls nesting near 

 Fairburn. — Three pairs of Great Crested Grebes have nested 

 here this year, but owing to unknown causes only two young, 

 one in a family, have been reared. They seem to have nested 

 here for a few years now. I have also heard that the Little 

 Owl nested at Ledsham a few miles from this village. I did 

 not hear of it until the young left, but I think the report is 

 reliable. — W. G. Bramley. 



Strongylocoris luridus Fall, in Cumberland. — On the 

 9th of July, I captured a single specimen of this extremely rare 

 insect by sweeping along a hedge bank in an unfrequented 

 lane near Prior Rigg, about three miles west of Carlisle. On 

 setting it, I w-as struck with the resemblance in size and shape 

 to S. leucocephalus Linn., and thought it might be a form of 

 that species. On turning to Saunders' ' Hemiptera-Heterop- 

 tera,' it agreed with the description of S. luridus Fall., so I 

 sent it to Mr. E. x\. Butler, and have now received his con- 

 firmation. Saunders only gives three British localities, all 

 on the South Coast. Mr. Butler writes : ' Besides the British 

 record from Jasione, there are continental ones from Galium 

 and C-aliuna. It occurs from Southern Scandinavia to 

 Northern and Central Italy, and eastward to the Caucasus, 

 but is certainly rare in Britain.' I have taken 5. leuco- 

 cephalus not uncommonly some years in the same locality, 

 and Galium aperine is one of the dominant plants along the 

 hedge. — J as. Murray, 2 Balfour Road, Carlisle. 



\Vc have been favoured liy Lord Sudeley with a reprint of his 

 interesting paper on ' The Public Utility of Museums,' which appeared 

 in The Nineteenth Century and After for July, and in the same pamphlet 

 is a reprint of a leading article in The Times on the subject of guide 

 lecturers, and of a letter'from Sir David Murray, dealing with the value 

 of public lectures in the National Gallery. The public are greatly in- 

 debted to Lord Sudeley for the enthusiastic way in which he has constantly 

 advocated the popularising of Museums. 



