212 NOTES: AMPHIBIA, BIRDS, AND MOLLUSCA. 



NO TE— AMPHIBIA. 

 Palmate Newt near Huddersfield. — This species (Afolge palmata) has been 

 found commonly in a pond at Dalton by Mr. Sheard. Another specimen was 

 taken from the pond in Beaumont Park by Master C. Mosley, on the 2nd May. 

 The most striking point of distinction is that the tail ends abruptly, with a wiry 

 filament protruding from the end. — S. L. Mosley, Huddersfield, June 1889. 



NOTE—ORNITHOLOG Y. 

 Nightingale near Alford, Lincolnshire. — The Nightingale [Daulias 

 luscinia), which rarely visits the Alford district, has this spring been heard in 

 unusual numbers. I have heard two, and from the reports brought to me do not 

 doubt that not less than five have taken up their quarters within three miles of 

 this town. Many persons have walked out to listen to their song 'in the stilly 

 night.' — Jas. Eardi.ey Mason, The Sycamores, Alford, 10th June, 1889. 



NOTES— MOLL USCA. 

 Orange-coloured Arion ater at Durham. — The Rev. H. E. Fox, M.A., 

 of Durham city, has sent me a specimen, nearly adult, of this abundant species, 

 which is of a very unusual colour, uniform bright orange-yellow with its foot-fringe 

 orange-vermilion, and tentacles dark grey with black bulbs. The colour is very 

 different from the orange -red of the form found so abundantly in the German 

 Rhineland, which precludes me from referring the Durham example to the same 

 variety {rubra). — W, Denison Roebuck, Leeds, June 17th, 1889. 



Limax agrestis var. albida near Preston. — The pure albino variety of 

 this abundant species is sufficiently uncommon to merit record. My friend, 

 Mr. W. H. Heathcote of Preston, has sent me a nearly adult specimen, which he 

 found on the 18th of June on the river-bank at Walton-le-Dale (South Lanes.), 

 in company with great abundance of the type and of var. sylvatica Moq., and a 

 single example of var. tristis; there were also an Arion bourguignati (very small) 

 and a Limax maximus (very minute and black, markings obsolete). — W. Denison 

 Roebuck, Leeds, 22nd June, 1889. 



Helix fusca an Addition to the Manx Fauna. — On the 12th of Sep- 

 tember, 1887, Mr. J. Eardley Mason was kind enough to collect for me, at Athol 

 Bridge, in the parish of Malew near Castleton, a number of shells. Of these the 

 most noticeable is Helix fusca, a species which does not appear to have hitherto 

 been placed on record for the island ; one specimen was sent. There were 

 also a few examples of Helix hispida, one of Zonifes cellarius, and several of 

 Z. nitidulus, etc. 



Mr. Mason also collected Ancylus fluviatilis in the Colby stream, Colby Glen, 

 Arbory parish, on the 15th September of the same year ; and in the Colby Glen, 

 same day, an adult Helix aspersa, a few young H. rufescens, two H. hispida, etc. 

 Mr. Taylor has seen and verified all the shells. — W. Denison Roebuck, Leeds. 



Shells at Kilton Castle, Cleveland. — Taking advantage of a visit from 

 Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, I easily induced him to accompany me on Easter 

 Monday, April 22nd, to Kilton Castle, Cleveland. Two or three smart showers 

 promised well for success, but Kilton does not appear to be so redundant in species 

 as might be supposed, and even allowing for the season for North-East Yorkshire 

 collecting hardly being at its best as yet, I was in hopes of securing a better list. 

 However, that appended is not without interest. The geological formation is 

 chiefly Lower Oolite, and the castle stands at the summit of a wooded slope 

 (Larch, of recent planting). Little was to be done away from the fallen masonry 

 of the ruins, and though lower down the valley we encountered deciduous timber, 

 yet little success rewarded us there. The following is our list : — Arion hortensis, 

 A. bourguignati, A. ater, Limax maximus, L. arborum, L. agrestis, I.. Levis, 

 Helix aculeata, H. nemoralis, H. hortensis, H. rotundata, H. hispida, H. sericea, 

 H. pygnuva, H. arbustorum, Zonitcs fnlvus, Z. alliarius, Z. punts and v. margari- 

 tacea, Z. cellarius, Z. nitidulus, Z. crystallinus, Pupa umbilicata, Clai/s/lia 

 rugosa, C. laminata, Bulimus obscurus, Carychium minimum, Azeca tridens, 

 Zua lubrica, and Vitrina pellucida. —Bakkr Hudson, Redcar, May 1 889. 



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