178 NOTES : MAMMALIA. 
Stachys Betonica. Lastreea Oreopteris. 
Pinguicula vulgaris. Asplenium viride. 
Potamogeton densus Asplenium Trichomane 
Potamogeton lucens, Asplenium ruta-muraria. 
Polypodium vulgare Scolopendrium vulgare 
Polypodium calcareum Lycopodium selago. 
Cystopteris fragilis. Selaginella selaginoides. 
Polystichum aculeatum. 
For the Geological Section no report has been furnished, but it 
may be explained that the work of this section was confined to 
explaining, for the benefit of visitors, the already well-known 
geological features of the district.—E.P.K., E.R.W. 
NOTES—MAMMALIA. 
counts, Rigsby with Ailby, No 
Parish A rth Lincolnshire. rish 
accounts of Rigsby with nity contain many entries of sums paid for aioe es 
( Vulpes vulgaris) between 1686 and 1739. [We should have been glad to have 
he full details we Poe aes Nat.] Besides these, there are the following 
items extract S. 
Meles taxus eisieass cefBBG: ‘It. giuen for a badger — we Eve 
1718. ‘gau sary oy Seg, 8 killing . = 6 
oo 
. 
2 
1732. ‘payd for fox Bagear ve ares ee 
1733. *fora Bagpat killing ane a 6’ 
1735. ‘Giue for Bager caching ... F ce 
Lutra vulgaris Erxl.—1710. ‘ paid for a noter killing 6’ 
1725. ‘Giuen to se well Dusnap for 
killing a o' ; 
£733... -Giu “ - Richard Norton for a noter 
ing 
—J. Ehaheey Meson, Alford, Lincs. ; May 4th, 1891. 
badge rous propensities in the Water Rat. sudden rustling in the 
splash, and then a brown apparition ‘gliding ‘bashet the water close to 
the bankeside is what we generally see of one of our commonest British 
s compa ig ce seam that several are seen together as in the case 
ibed. hes: i € 
- One Sund July 
Mr. Poulter of Church Fenton, and his brother, whilst walking across some low 
S i i din 
; t $ 
which speedily vanished into a drain end, under the adjoining Geld. When lifted 
out, the rabbit had just succumbed — obviously killed by the Water Rats. 
is a 
com a specie es - drains and on t of streams, that we apo safely 
the ote as an a ry a peanhabie | deviation from the normal 
Sabie of the eee Vole.—Ebs.]. 
Naturale. 
