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FIELD NOTES. 



BIRDS. 



White Rooks at Brompton. — Two young Rooks were shot 

 at Brompton on May nth, 1912, which shew not the sHghtest 

 trace of black ; indeed they are practically white — with a very 



Photo by] [C. D. Head. 



Young Albino Rooks in a Rookery near Brompton, Yorkshire. 



slight colouring of cream or light cinnamon. — Harry Witty 

 Scarborough. 



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MAMMALS. 



Pine Marten in Cumberland. — A very fine male marten 

 {Martes sylvestyis) was trapped in a wood near Seathwaite in 

 I3orrowdale, Cumberland, in the spring of 191 1. There are 

 said to be two more about the same rocks this spring, but 

 up to the present they have, I am glad to say, evaded capture. 

 It is satisfactory to know that what is now one of the rarest of 

 British mammals still manages to exist in the wilder parts of 

 our isles ; but the sheep farmers do not love it, though, no 

 doubt, the hill foxes are usually more of a danger to their 

 weakly lambs. — E. T. Baldwin. 



1912 July.iv 



