290 Field Notes. 
Many old names are lost sight of, and sometimes only to be 
. found in old documents, as I have proved. 
It will perhaps be noticed that I give Schmidt as the 
authority for the name (which the L. Cat. last ed., has), while 
our latest Flora has M. Convallaria Weber (in Prim. FI, hobat, 
1780). Schmidt’s name appeared in his unfinished work, 
‘Flora boémica inchoata, 1793. T. 1, Cent. 4,’ he being the 
first to take up the Linnean name Odifolia; Linneus putting it 
in the genus Convallaria (Sp. pl. ed. I, 1. 316, 1753). 
Other references to the species as British will be found in :— 
Phytologist, V. 1, p. 579, 1843. 
Proc. Berwick. Nat. Club, 11, 20, 1843. 
Phytologist, p. 236, 1861. 
Phytologist, p. 45 and 162, 1862. 
N. Yorkshire (Flora), part 5, p. 381, 1892. 
Science Gossip, p. 210, 1876. 
Naturalist, p. 249, 1806. 
Journal of Botany, p. 431, 1896. 
Flora of Middlesex, p. 279, 1869. 
Comp. Cybele Brit., p. 336, 1869). 
Journal of Botany, pp. 202-208, 1913. 
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MOSSES. 
Oreas Mielichhoferi Brid., var. elongata B. and S. = 
O. Mielichhoferi (Funck.) Brid., var. compacta (Hornsch. ) 
Braithw. Br. M. FJ.—In October, 1g1o, I had the pleasure 
of again finding, in Mudd’s locality, this rare and interesting 
moss.—R. Barnes, Harrogate. 
BIRDS. 
Removal of Feces from Bird Nests —A few years ago 
I was interested in the nest of a Common Wren, the young of 
which repeatedly passed out the feces to the parent bird, 
deliberately waiting to receive them. This year two other 
cases of similar methods have come under my observation 
while in a photographic tent, the species in question being 
respectively a willow warbler and a yellow wagtail.—JASPER 
ATKINSON. 
Merlin Mobbed by Wagtails.—At Bolton Abbey I 
watched a Merlin on the ground immediately close to where I 
knew the nest and young of a yellow wagtail to be. It was 
searching the ground carefully, and was being mobbed by the 
parent wagtails and three house martins. Mr. Roose went 
down to examine, and found all the young wagtails had been 
killed, but only one eaten. The remarkable feature seemed 
to me to be that this occurred on a very fine Saturday afternoon, 
with the usual number of visitors passing constantly less than 
150 yards away.—]ASPER ATKINSON. 
Naturalist, 
