182 NOTES—GEOLOGY AND ORNITHOLOGY. 
fe oe musicus. Thrush. White variety, with dark eyes, shot 
t Sudbury, near Derby, June 1890. 
Pisinns colchicus. Pheasant. White rage with pale blue 
eyes, shot near Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Dec. 18 his record looks 
as if coming events had cast their diets Batove: and the birds 
had prepared themselves for the severe winter with its long- 
continued white mantle. 
Dafila acuta. Pintail Duck. Shot on the lake in Kedleston 
Park, near Derby, Dec. 23rd, 1890. The property of the 
Hon. A. N. Curzon. 
pare cristata. Tufted Duck. Male shot on the Trent 
Weston, Dec. 0; 
Puticula marila. Scans Female shot on the Trent at Weston, 
Dec. 1890. 
Mareca penelope. Wigeon. Male shot near Doncaster, Dec. 1890. 
Fuligula ferina. Pochard. Do. 
These two are the property of Mr. A. Gamble, Sheffield. 
Tadorna cornuta. Sheldrake. Shot on the Trent near 
Burton, December 1890. 
NOTE—GEOLOGY. 
Boulders at Guisborough. ae have just observed on page 347 of ‘The 
Naturalist’ for Nov. 1888, a mention by Mr. Gregson gf boulders in ite Priory 
grounds at Guisborough, This snasete me of rather a curious ee ce. 
In 1878 Admiral Chaloner excavated the floor of the Chased and the workmen 
uncovered a large cota aaa actually resting upon the stone pavement. How’ in the 
world — it hoa th 
It is also iar ‘worth record that when a deep excavation was made under 
cahoroee Beck: for laying a pipe, a peat-like deposit was found immediately 
under the epime, containing bones of the horse in numbers.—W. C. Hey, York, 
March oth, 1891. 
NOTES—ORNITHOLOG Y. 
Spotted Crake at North Stainle ar Ripon.—During the last week 
a Spotted Crake ries ae i nae a stream which runs by my 
garden, and has n shown itself among the shrubs and on the lawn. The 
stream is not more aprile n and nits the house.—R. A. SUMMERFIELD, North 
Stainley Vicarage, April 3oth, 1891. 
Flamborough Bird No otes.—Since I last wrote you, we have bas an 
immense quantity of migratory birds. April 16th, some Shee oe or ear ‘Sw llows 
a 
G rustica) seen. . Apri pair of Turtle Doves (Turtur idindeaeds 
April 19th, Cuckoo (Cvculus canorus) heard for the first time this on, 
ril 20th, several Whitethroats, Great and Lesser are cinerea and S. curruca). 
th, a pair o ed Crows (Corvus cornix) and one Woodcock Saba 
sticola) n dland. May toth an tha ri 
(Ruticilla phenicurus), Blackstarts (R. tthys), Wheatears (Saxicola set 3 
ed Flyc ts (Muscicapa atricapilla), a few Gold-crested Wrens (Regt 
cristatus), and St ats ( Prati pon Ani ola). hundreds of Redstarts and 
Blackstarts which have with e Headland are something astonishing + 
I have not seen so many for iecck ay pniowm BAILEY, Flamborough, May 14th. 
Naturalist, 
