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and Canary Mules, which we valued and were sorry to lose ; but 

 these did not lame their legs in any instance, while the Tree Sparrows 

 constantly did so. I could only explain the apparent anomaly by 

 supposing that, in flight, the Tree Sparrow carries the legs more 

 extended, and further from the body, than most other birds. 



Allow me to say, in conclusion, that I shall be glad if any readers 

 of ' The Naturalist ' can assist me in discovering any new breeding- 

 stations of the Tree Sparrow during their summer excursions through 

 the English Lake District. It is difficult for any one person to work 

 a faunal area without a little assistance from without ; and to acknow- 

 ledge assistance received is always a pleasurable duty. 



February is/, 1890. 



jVO TE—HYMENOPTERA . 



Sirex juvencus near Alford, Lines. — At Tothill, near Alford, Miss Susan 

 Allett took a female of this species on the i8th September, 1889. The specimen 

 is now in my possession. — Jas. Eardley Mason, 14th February, 1890. 



NOTE—AIOLL USCA . 



Trent Shells. — Among a large number of shells obtained last year from sand 

 dredged from the river Trent above Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, I have found the 

 following species and varieties: — Cyclas rivicola, Palitdiiia vivipara, Aiiodcnta 

 lygiiea, A. anatiiia, Unio pictoriim, with varieties rostrata and curvirostris, 

 U. tumidus. with vars. radiata and arcitata. There are also several varieties 

 apparently unnamed as British. — George Roberts, Lofthouse, Feb. 19th, 1890. 



NOTES— BIRDS. 



Great Grey Shrike at Middleton, Leeds. — Miss Maude, of Middleton 

 Lodge, sent to me for identification a specimen of Laniiis cxcnhitor, picked up 

 dead, though warm, in Middleton Wood, three and half miles south of Leeds 

 Bridge (and only just outside the Borough boundary), on the 17th inst. It is 

 a female (by dissection), and has the single white bar of var. Z. major on the 

 primaries. — Edgar R. ^YAITE, The ^Museum, Leeds, 24th Jan., 1890. 



Red-throated Diver at Alford, Lines, — Mr. J.'^s. Eardley Mason sent to 

 the Museum, through Mr. Roebuck, a specimen of this bird (Co/yiiil'iis scpteiitrio- 

 iia/is). It is in full winter plumage, and when dissecting I found it to be a female. 

 Mr. Alason informs me that it was taken alive by a farm labourer in a turnip-field, 

 on the 27th December last, at Alford, seven miles from the sea. — Edgar R. 

 Waite, The Museum, Leeds, 13th January, 1890. 



NOTE—AfOSSES. 



Grimmia torquata Hornsch. in fruit. — This moss, of which the fruit has 

 hitherto been unknown, is now reported (Revue Bryologique, No. I, 1890, p. 16) 

 to have been found fruiting freely in the mountains of Northern Idaho, U.S.A., 

 at an altitude of 6,000 ft., by Mr. J. B. Leiberg, in March of last year (1889). 

 This is the Gr. iorta Nees. of Wilson's Bryologia, and it will be interesting to be 

 assured that this is really the true fruit, though it is not described, as Dr. Brail h- 

 waite says (Mo.-s Flora, vol. ii. p. 15) that 'the supposed fertile specimen of 

 Leibman was due to capsules o{ Aiitphoridhiin Lappoiiiaiin growing intermi.xtcl.' 

 Mr. Leiberg also claims to have found the rarely-fruiting Gr. Harttiiani Schp. in 

 the same locality in fruit. British Bryologists look out !— C. P. Hobki rk. 



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