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MAMMALS, REPTILES, AMPHIBIANS AND FISHES COMMITTEE.— 
Mr. A. Whitaker writes :—Attention is drawn to the apparent 
scarcity of bats in the neighbourhood of Selby throughout the 
summer, by Mr. Musham. Elsewhere this does not seem to have 
been noticed, and in the Barnsley district they have been rather 
more plentiful than for several years past, and both Leisler’s 
and Natterer’s Bats have occurred among other more common 
species. 
Mr. R. Fortune writes that the season for fresh water fish has 
been an exceptionally bad one owing to the lowness of the rivers. 
The most notable captures for 1914 were, Trout, 25% inches long, 
15 inches girth, weight 7 lbs. 5 oz., at Malton in May. Dace, 
13+ 0z., at Pool in July. Flounder. 17 0z., at Newton-on-Ouse 
in July. Chub, 5 lbs. r oz., Forge Valley, and 5 lb. 2.0z.. at 
Yedingham, both in March. Grayling, 1 Ib. 134 0z., 2 Ib. 8 oz., 
3 lb. 40z.,at Ganton in March. Roach, 21b.1 0z., at Yedingham 
in) Hebruary. Barbel, two, 7 Ibs. each, at Brafferton, and a 
Sturgeon, 9 feet long, weighing 230 Ibs., near Goole on May 13th. 
Salmon fishing, owing to the absence of floods, has, generally 
speaking, been a failure. 
Mr. Grabham, however, informs me that the netsmen took 
some particularly fine fish from the Ouse below York, but that 
the Smelt netting there in April was a complete failure. 
Mr. Clarke records the capture of a species of fish of which he 
is aware of no previous records for our county, viz., the Electric 
Ray, about thirty inches long (Torpedo molbiliana), which was 
taken from the Salmon nets at Filey on the 29th of June. 
Other interesting captures include the Lesser Forked-beard 
(FR. tvifurcus) and the Pearlside (S. pennantt). Mr. Clarke also 
draws attention to the unusual abundance of Porbeagle Sharks 
and Picked Dogfish. 
CONCHOLOGICAL SECTION. 
West Ripinc.—Mr.. Greevz Fysher, writes:—The excep- 
tionally dry weather of the past season has been very unfavourable 
to the observation and collection of terrestrial mollusca, and 
cases have been observed where even fresh water species have 
1915 Jan. 1. 
