22 NOTES—-BIRDS AND GEOLOGY. 
at the same place, out of a flock of about sixteen. Oct. 29th, 
1891. Three more shot at Saltwick, near Whitby. In the crop 
~ of one of these birds were 77 limpets (locally known as ‘ Flithers’), 
beautifully scooped out or extracted from the shell, not a particle 
of which (shell) was discernible. Another was shot at the same 
place on the 31st October. 
N 0 TES —BIRDS. 
ood of the Tree Sparrow.—In the aire ve sie present year I had 
occasion to shoot a ‘Tree Sparrow (P. montanus), On pong the co at 7 
the crop I found three small » 9 two yellow flies, has a grain or two 0 
This collection had evidently been made from the yeti cine lying on ihe 
psec ape of the canal, where my "bird was shot. think at other times of the 
year the Tree Sparrow will be found to take his toll of oa fruit, or sprouting 
kg tike goa more abundant relative. —F. B. WHITLOCK, Beeston, Notts. 
mist eyine Apgagle pe a owe a ine young bird came to an 
untimely e culiar The was built in a ro = : 
one long thin shoot plentally furnished Re “ange ee fell over the nest, 
form chw he bird = ped Been 
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craning its neck i em ma bit Cok ad tian to i the ood t by 
its parents, when it wa’ oS in the fk art under the low sanaibte with = 
of the large pricks, and, unable to extricate itself, had perished miserably 
fully feathered, and eae gene have flown in a day or so, as the ot Be: had 
done.—RILey Fortune, Harrogate, Not: 8th, 189r. 
NOTES—GEOLOG Y. 
Forest-bed at Il.—I notice that in the ‘Geological Survey Memoir 
ily id of sheet ny published last year, it is stated that the only sections “t 
e ‘Submerged Forests’ which accompany the estuarine warp of the Humber | 
e docks. It ma 
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Gas-Works. The excavations were cu ough the silt, etc., reachi 
Boulder-Clay at about 25 feet from the surface, ~ the Chali "et cas awe Imme- 
diately upon — Boulder-Clay a bed of peat was exposed, i umerous 
fallen tr prety ae = wood w sien o - blac, but ner boheis Sonn ny a have a 
walking-stick e from it). In e, the Lats ere abundant shells 
of Cardium ae Tina Salida ¢ ‘estes gress ome ron Ooty i and a few 
Littorina littorea.—ALFRE ARKER, cents Nosearber Tot th, eae? 
Derbyshire F 
statement on page eo ie pathiore . sp Pat i : 
F, MARSHALL. 
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— et at se — take. The two last-ment tioned Lge Is coh brags first 
I think the ein : es Papin ae = question must oat mixed up other records 
ey 
ement to which — is ‘thus drawn | occurs in the ‘ Bibliography 
rage Tiago a doh oes a faithful transcript or summary of what authors state, eo 
vs ae Baie wrong. Bayodd this our responsibility does not extend.— 
Naturalist, 
