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same ivied court in front of the study window where I am now writing 
this. The other two nests were within five yards of her present one, 
and both broods got safely away—an unusual thing in this cat- 
beridden place. Iam quite certain that one individual, at least, of 
the pair has had a share in all three nests—I presume, the female; 
at all events, the one which has taken the largest share of the work 
in incubation. She has a peculiar bare patch on her neck, by which 
she is recognisable at a glance. And both she and her mate are 
quite tame, and feed their young without concern, when some 
person may be gardening within a few yards of the nest. 
NOTES—MAMMALIA 
Chur. siglo Acie sec Ne Cockerington S. Mary’s, North Lincoln- 
shire.—Mr. R. W. Goulding, of Louth, has extracted the following Natural 
History sue ae rom the 5 ae accounts of Cockerington S$. Mary’s (or North 
poe ee near Lou 
Corv nedula. ee 1734, Is. 4d. was paid ‘for two men stoping jackdaws 
pions 
Talpa europea.—tIn 1732, John Tomson received 15s. ‘for moulin 
Vulpes vulgaris.—In 1735, John Shipton and Henry Hutton wat aay Is. 
‘for killing a fox. 
Lutra lutra.—In 1744, 1s. was given to Wm. Souden ‘for catching an otter. 
J. Burtt Davy, Alford, Lincs., January 17th, ety 
Red Field Voles near Lothe erton, Yorkshire.—Bird-lime is usually made 
by boiling mice? oil until it attains the Be sx he tenacity, and recently I had a 
omewhat 
s experience in the way of na on BpchBoc e. Whilst walking 
be caclipiaty wit vith Mr. Roebuck from Micklefield adcaster on the Ist inst., I 
noticed a broken stone jar lying by the road-side, poe re from Lotherton. It had 
contained linseed-oil, and had evidently fallen from the cart on which it had 
n carried. little oil still lay in o e broken = but it was pa 
thick and yellow, as though it had been oda some tim very 
tenacious, and had done its work only too well. Two Red Fiel ay Toles (ar pia ied 
glareolus) were lying dead in the oil, having no doubt been — by the 
substance, and unwillingly detained. —EDGA R R. WaITE, The Museum, Leeds, 
21st March, 1891. 
r 
visit the Reservoir, and have done so several oe uring the work of recon- 
_— On the 28th February last I noticed that the sandy sil foc whieh 
ows the grass Teles neitienad was drilled all over with smal I had 
seuicely made the discovery when some of the perpetrators put vin an eens 
i 7 ken ese 
e Com n, a 
little creatures were scurrying about in all directions through the grass, which was 
adow. Th 1 
lying pe n like the swathes i in a mea e Voles were very numerous, and 
four or five nce, so that, although they were very quick, 
I maseced to each Aap or two of them. : — carefully at the —, both 
above and below the area occupied ass, but coul ind a si 
y the gr byt 
burrow, pitsugh. as I have said before, this particular tract tes Peforate ed in all 
directions.—EpGar R. Waire, The Museum, Leeds, 3rd April aiekne te 
Naturalist, 
