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FIELD NOTES. 



MAMMALS. 

 Bos primigenius in liolderness. -A collection of bones 

 of Bos primigenius , from the peat at Kilnsea, near Spurn, has 

 been presented to the Hull Museum by Mr. J. W. Webster. The 

 specimens include several vertebrae (including- the atlas), scapula, 

 radius and ulna, ribs, etc.--T. S. 



BIRDS. 

 Black Kite near Whitby : a Correction. — With reference 

 to the record of the Black Kite near Whitby, in the January 

 issue of The Naturalist (p. 29), which appears to have been 

 inserted under a misapprehension, Mr. Eagle Clarke and I have 

 examined the bird and find it to be a Montag^u's Harrier, Circus 

 pygargus (L.). — T. H. Nki.sox. Redcar, loth March 1903. 



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MOLLUSCS. 



Testacella scutulum in North Lincolnshire. On the 17th 

 of December I received a young" Testace//a from Miss Susan Allett, 

 Caistor. My friend Mr. J. W. Taylor has named it, and says 

 ' It is undoubtedly T. scutiilion, and therefore an addition to the 

 fauna of North Lincolnshire.' It was taken in the g^arden of 

 Nettleton House, which is in Caistor Parish.— E. Adrian 

 WoOdruffe Peacock, Cadney, Brigg. 



Yorkshire Fusi. — A good deal of confusion exists in York- 

 shire lists between Fusus Islandiciis Chann. and Fjisiis gracilis 

 Da Costa. This is primarily due to the fact that in Sowerby's 

 Index of British Shells, which was much used by collectors 

 forty years ago, F. gracilis is called F. Islandicus. Accordingly, 

 Ferguson records Islandicus for Redcar, and the Rev. J. Hawell, 

 in his List of Cleveland Shells (Proc. Cleveland Nat. Field 

 Club), falls into the same snare, and records ' dead shells 

 from Staithes.' The true Fusus Islandicus Chann. is a very 

 deep-water shell, of which only two or three British examples 

 are known — it is, in fact, abysmal, or nearly so. I do not think 

 there is the slightest doubt that it was F. gracilis Da Costa that 

 Ferguson took from the Redcar boats and Mr. Hawell found at 

 Staithes. Neither of these collectors mention /". gracilis, and 

 it is not very rare on the fishermen's lines at any of the Yorkshire 

 fishing stations, though much less common than F. antiijuus. — 

 W. C. Hey, 9th February 1903., 



