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land at this particular spot, more especially as the Car itself is no 
so low a level, that the waters of the Pont frequently flow into it, 
As might be expected, numerous water and bog plants are to 
be met with, for some of which it is the only convenient station 
near Newcastle. In the ditches as well as in the lake, Callitriche 
autumnalis, Chara aspera, and C. hispida, are abundant.— 
Amongst the other plants may be mentioned—Ranunculus lingua, 
Listera cordata, Enanthe phellandrium, Triglochin palustre, Alis- 
ma ranunculoides, Hippuris vulgaris, Utricularia vulgaris, and 
U. intermedia, Carex pauciflora, Potamogeton lucens and P. 
heterophyllum, Anagallis tenella, Parnassia palustris, Nuphar 
lutea, Eleocharis multicaulis, Andromeda polifolia, Habenaria 
bifolia, Gymnadenia conopsea, Globularia pilulifera, Lycopodium 
selago, and L. selaginoides ; and most of the common North of Eng- 
land heath and bog plants, both cryptogamic and flowering. Many 
fresh-water shells are found in the lake and the ditches which run 
into it, but they do not appear to be so numerous as they were a 
few years ago. At one time the Car was not preserved, and the 
water birds were driven away, and the shells on which they fed 
were abundant ; but now that the place is strictly preserved, the 
birds abound and the shells have evidently become scarcer. 
Water birds, as might be expected, have resorted in greater num- 
bers to the Car since they have been less disturbed, and this year 
they appear to be more numerous than usual. Several species 
also have bred in greater numbers this season than usual, and 
some have bred which had not been previously noticed at the 
Car in the breeding season. Several broods of the Redshank 
were brought out; the Water Crake, bred there this season, and 
a Ruff and a Reeve were seen by Mr. R. Reay, of Berwick Hill. 
Mr. John Hancock, from whom this information is furnished, 
obtained the egg of the Redshank. Amongst the other birds ob- 
served was a flock of about thirty Ring Dottrels, a number unusu- 
ally large to be seen together at Prestwick Car. The only busi- 
ness transacted at the meeting was the election of four new 
members ; and the presentation, by Mr. J. Hancock, of a notice 
of the capture of the Thrush Nightingale (Sylvia turdoides major ), 
the largest European warbler, near the village of Swalwell, three 
