130 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Wagtails. How long were his observations continued ?-—for a week 
or ten days? Before arguing from what is purely negative evidence 
he ought to have ‘amas continuous daily observations during the 
entire season 
Birds do not i take the most direct routes to and from 
their summer and winter quarters, and the lines of migration followed 
are often inexplicable or most difficult to understand. 
OsBORNE House, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, 
March 8th, 1894 
NOTE—MAMMALIA. 
Lesser Shrew in ge wlan Bisgee poet I received a Lesser Shrew 
(Solex pygm@us) from Mr. Newman e, of Rai , near Macclesfield, which 
had been brought into the house by a as yor re Sore: On the dorsal sur- 
e the fur was dull brown, on the lower parts mouse grey, with silvery reflections ; 
the line of demarcation bet e two colours being very distinct on the tail, 
which was stouter, m airy, and much longer in. proportion to the size of the 
1; in Sorex vulgaris e snout was longer than t species, and 
anima an 
furnished with longer whiskers. On lige cutting open the angle of the m outh 
it was seen that the fifth pointed tooth behin d the claw-shaped incisors was larger 
Mr. 
(p. “is is the firs rst w as been recorded ptt hiesteboe. —CHAS. OLDHAM, 
hton-on-Mersey, March 6th, 1894. 
NOT. 2 FISHES. 
Voracity of the are and Pike.—Many anecdotes have been given 
about the “pee of those finny rele - the seas and lines rani = Shark 
and the Pike. One unrecorded instan shot: bin 
Paatridge ( (Pind cineret, ‘that fell eid hen Reel: struggling : along sap a bi: ep in 
the hilst a retriever was swimming to fetch it, having been seized 
expose . upo’ 
being decapitated and opened was found fg have a mature and oan wcatieg 
‘a-bird in its interior. eighi 
waiting open- 
long before pene = tured itself. The Guillemot is ore n the 
sion of Mr. Nutbrown, with Messrs. Brooks & Co., High Skeligate, Ripon.— 
pve HESLINGTON, Hs North Fond, ney seis April 20th, 1894. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
At the cies of the ces ge aig Tm scare of Londo n, held on March on 
Mr. ob rig H. Grimshaw, of the Edinburgh Museum of | Science and Art 
formerly an active worker in Yorkshire, was elected a Fellow of the Seats. 
t the same meeting, the Rev. T. A. Marshall communicated a paper entitled 
A = ahiene of the British Braconidz, Part V.’ 
, Naturalist, a 
