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FIELD NOTES. 



BIRDS. 



Bullfinch near Horncastle. — A remarkable feature in this 

 neighbourhood in recent weeks has been the great number of 

 Bullfinches {Pyrrhula europcBo). I have sometimes seen from 

 20 to 30 in the hedgerows during a walk of a couple of miles. — 

 J. Conway Walter, Langton Rectory, 13th March. 1903. 



Woodchat Shrike at Speeton. — On Saturday, 9th May, 

 I saw a fine male Woodchat Shrike i^Laniiis pomera^ius) among 

 the furze bushes on the broken ground on what is known as the 

 Speeton Middle Cliff". I was sitting at the time, and the bird 

 came and perched on the top of a bush some twenty paces off". 

 Having often seen this easily-recognisable Shrike in other 

 localities (out of England) I think that I can hardly have made 

 a mistake in my identification of this somewhat rare species. — 

 C. G. Danford, Reighton. 



Lincolnshire Bird Notes. — On 17th May 1902 I and my 

 son Dennis put a Corn-Bunting (^Miliaria miliaria) off her nest 

 under a bush in a ditch by the road from Kirton Lindsey to 

 Redbourne. The nest contained three half-incubated eggs. On. 

 the 13th May this year we found another nest in the same place 

 which also contained three slightly-incubated eggs. It is not 

 likely that either season eggs had been taken from the nest, 

 which is well away from any village. We should not have 

 discovered it had we not been studying a form of the variety 

 albo-fasciata of Helix aspersa which occurs in the broken 

 Lincolnshire Limestone bed in the ditch at the spot. Three 

 eggs two years running is exceptionable. In Redbourne we 

 saw two pairs of Whinchats {Pratincola rtibeira), which are not 

 nearly as common as in the late sixties and early seventies. — 

 E. Adrian Woodruffe Peacock, Cadney, Brigg. 



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MOLLUSCS. 

 Snails on Roof of Bridlington Priory Tower. — When our 

 Driffield Naturalist Club was visiting Bridlington Priory on 

 Saturday, 2nd May 1903, a boy of the party secured at least 

 a dozen Hygrania hispida of varying sizes which he had found at 

 the top of the very high tower. Unfortunately they were all dead 

 specimens. Probably the wild winter had been too much for 

 them. They were in a fair state of preservation considering 

 their position and exposure. — E. P. Blackburn, Driffield. 



