NOTES—ORNITHOLOGY AND MOLLUSCA. 1t9 
also an accomplished botanist and geologist, and some ten years 
ago published a work on the latter subject, with special reference to 
the strata of the county. He often worked in company with th 
late Mr. Joseph Duff, another well-known Bishop Auckland Saisie 
who died some four or five years ago, and whose magnificent 
collection of fossils is now in Newcastle Museum. An old friend of 
Mr. Calvert’s, writing on March 2nd, says:—‘I had a walk with 
Calvert on the 8th of February; he was in very good health then, 
and told me that the 24th of February would be the sixty-fourth 
anniversary of his apprenticeship to Peter Fair. He little thought 
then that, on that anniversary, his own funeral would take place.’ 
eo T. H. NELSON. 
NOTES—ORNITHOLOG Y. 
Water Rail at North Stainley near Ripon.—A Water Rail (Aad/us 
equa) was shot here pe January $Sth.—R. A. SUMMERFIELD, North Stainley 
Vic. , Ripon, Feb, 5th 
ra eat Northern Diver ar Wakefield.—I have to record for the 30th of 
October a fine male Great Norther Diver Peaches vlatialis) i in sig paoagat 
oo a great many of the spo macys pagent: on the back and wing coverts yet 
remaining ; weight, 9 lbs. It was shot near Wakefield, and is ap sec aad oe 
men within three cere as I have in my a ection a fine winter-dress bird got in 
March 1888.—Gro, PARKIN, York Street, Wakefield, Noy. 7th, 1890. 
Great Northern phe and oe -tailed Duck near Morecambe.—My 
friend, Mc W. e of More e, informs me that a Great Northern 
oodho mb 
Diver es org glacial, female, was shot from the Old Pier on the 15th 
” ‘ae ee a gth January, he writes that another had been seen for 
me place. E i 
ttern in N i hire. fine specimen of this now rare British 
Sr rar aa stellaris) was shot in this parish on December 11th, 1890, by 
Mr. Geo. Trimmin ngham. It was in an old disused ase —— with 
tall reeds, rushes, and other water-plants, a place well known to our local 
gunners as a sure ‘find’ for a snipe or duck. Unfortunately, Trim rude not 
knowing its value sold it toa Hull game dealer. The ern was once common 
in the Fen district of owe nim and — wn = a old Fen folks as ‘ Mire- 
drum’ or ‘Butter-bump,’ from the peculia’ made duri a vg nesting 
Season.—J. W. HARRISON, Goxhill, eesrc trains neste 23rd, 1 
micas br nea: 
Burrowing Mollusca.—I am interested in Mr. Col inge’s paper on burrowing. 
Thave had Sopeitetible e experience with 7%  Gacerigh mauget at Bristol, and aineye 
found it from six to twelve inches below the surface. Its retreat can be detected 
fi 2, 
by the very clean- cut hole leaves—very di coos jit a worm’s ees oe 
i ten fou 
was quite tropical—with the usual solid epiphr 
showing this are Mg my collection. —B. Tomiin, The Green, Handa 
Zth, 1891. 
April 1897, 
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