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FIELD NOTES. 



MAMMALS. 

 White Leveret near Bardney, Lincolnshire. — A white 

 Leveret is now to be seen in the parish of Goutby, near Bardney, 

 These white specimens have appeared from time to time in this 

 neig'hbourhood for more than 50 years. So far as is known 

 they first appeared in the parishes of Lang-ton and Woodhall, 

 and seven years ag-o I presented a mother and two young, 

 which had been i<illed in Langton, to the Lincohi Natural 

 History Museum, stuffed by Mr. A. Fieldsend, of Lincoln. 

 They have of late years considerably extended their range ; but 

 it is still only now and then that the}- recur. — J. Conway 

 Walter, Horncastle, i6th July 1903. 



BIRDS. 



White Herons in Lincolnshire in 1772, — Dugdale's ' Im- 

 banking and Draining' (1772), p. 218, says: ' Dowsdale holt 

 where many lohite Herons do breed.' The locality is just in 

 Lincolnshire, but the holt and white Herons have gone for ever. 

 — E. A. W. Peacock, Cadney. 



Pied Wagtail's Nest. — A Song Thrush built a nest in a 

 pear tree trained to a wall in my garden. When it was com- 

 pleted, and before any eggs were laid, the gardener working 

 about it caused the Thrush to forsake its nest. A Pied Wagtail 

 then took possession and built its nest inside the forsaken 

 Thrush's nest and brought off her brood. — Richd. Paver-Crow, 

 Boroughbridge, 14th August 1903. 



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ENTOMOLOGY. 

 Entomolog^y at Little Bytham, Lincolnshire. — On 9th 



June, when the Lincolnshire Naturalists visited Little Bytham, 

 the wet, cool weather was adverse to entomological work. The 

 following insects noted are, perhaps, worthy of mention :— 

 Amongst the lepidoptera, Adela degeerella L. , a lovely ' Long- 

 horn ' moth ; Melanthia albicillata !>. and Bapta teinerata Hb., 

 two of our most beautiful ' carpets.' Along with these some 

 common ' waves ' and tortrices. The coleoptera furnished nothing 

 of importance, but a rather large colony of the pretty steel-blue 

 carabid beetle, Leistiis fulvibarbis Dej., which was found under 

 the bark of a dead tree ; also in a large boletus occurred many of 

 the common fungus beetles, Epurcea delcta Er. ; Dacne rufifrons 



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