284 FIELD NOTES. 



ENTOMOLOaV. 

 Ancistronycha abdominalis F. in Jarrow. — A fine speci- 

 men of this beetle was brought to me on May 24th, having been 

 picked up in a street in Jarrow, near the outskirts. Bold 

 records it in his ' Coleoptera of Northumberland and Durham ' 

 (Edition of 1871), without any note as to its frequency ; but 

 Fowler says ' confined to hilly and mountainous districts, 

 and always rare.' Its occurrence in a flat industrial town is 

 thus doubly interesting. — Geo. B. Walsh, Jarrow. 



BIRDS. 

 Unusual Situation for a Waterhen's Nest. — I have 

 seen Waterhen's nests in many curious and unlikely places 

 but have never before this year seen one in the middle of a 



Waterhen's Nest in middle of a Meadow at Bempton. 



meadow. The nest was a considerable distance from the 

 water, close to the village of Bempton. The friend who showed 

 it to me said he was sure the bird must imagine she was a corn- 

 crake.* When going to the nest she evidently alighted some 

 short distance from it, and always at one spot, as there was 

 a well-marked ' run ' through the grass. — R. Fortune. 



* The bird was surely anticipating the floods of this ' summer.' 



Naturalist, 



