368 NOTES—MAMMALIA AND MOLLUSCA. 
interested in its plant-life may well be grateful, and we are sure that 
they will best show their gratitude, in the eyes of its author, by 
ointing out an errors which may have crept into it, and by 
haste of compilation Festuca pseudo-myurus was omitted from the 
list, although included in the arithmetical total given; and that 
Medicago minima inserted on faith of a specimen in Herb. Peacock 
(‘spn. not seen’) was erroneously inserted by the compiler, thus 
involving a diminution of the total number by one. 
NOTES—MAMMALIA. 
Water Shrew near J pcan aie the end of | h (Oct. 1892), 
I found a specimen of this Sse uncommon species (Crestpus satin’ “deed in 
] 
of ie rbderc ee blood on the top of the skull under the skin, which pointed to a 
knock on the head before death.— LioneL E, ADAMs, Rose Hill, Penistone; 
ov. ith; 8 
Occurrence eo the Lesser Shrew near Masham: an Addition to the 
List of Yorkshire Mammals,—On Sept. 25th I picked up a Lesser Shrew 
which had been drowned in a galvanized trough, placed in a paddock in front of 
Burton House, for cattle to drink out of. Not — quite sure of its identity, I sent 
it up to Mr. Eagle Clarke, The Museum, Edinburgh, who has several fees urged 
me to try and discover it, and he has kindly identified it for me.—BasIL CARTER, 
Burton House sham, O 
»M ; . 1892. 
was extremely pleased to receive and examine this undoubted : per of 
Sorex minutus. It is the first Yorkshire example that either Mr. Roebuck or 
I colt a ae the we — ave both endeavoured to obtain the species for over * 
elev e time we are not inclined to regard it as rare, but 
pothee Be hone, pong ation. —W.E.C. 
NOTE—MOLLUSCA. 
Conchological Notes from West Ayton and Scarborough.—During the 
past season I have met with he i following land and freshwater shells in the neigh- 
bourhood of West a ton :—Valvata piscinalis, abundant and fine in the Derwent 
. s, Castle Mo 1b 
wher 
Z. operate, Betton Far m arry ; : WH. usca and A. sericea, Forge Valley, pat- 
ticularly on dog-mercury ; 7, pond aha : : ei Valley; H. pygme@a, quarry ne “aa 
eamer Moor; 4. pulchella pe x a, Yedmandale, Brompton, etc- 
“er ereas stg ih Forge Valley, : Papa mUSCOTUM, Betton Farm Qua” rs 
Yedm e, Brompton; P, adits licat. on on walls ; Vertigo pygme@4s 
qu sae feces mer Moor; V. pusilla, old wail 4 = yee ; Bala perversa, abundant 
on a wall near Spike's Hall ; ae ausilia rugosa, plen ntiful in stony places+ 
fe is very common in Forge Va alles and Vedmandale; Cochlicopa ludbrica, 
3; Carychium passes eck wood in the valley ; Cyclostoma elegans, both 
Rides. af Ro Forge Valley, but seems to be growing less plentiful.—W. C. HEY, 
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