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NOTE—MOLLUSCA. 
Viviparus contectus near Askern.—With regard to the Line: which, 
the programme issued for the be benefit of the briging 4 of the i cher bongs Naturalists 
Union in June, 1893, was reported to be e n the ie istrict, but was found b 
. Clarke and myself, I am glad gs part ble state tha’ t it is pretty 
plentifuliy distributed thereabouts and through t the kindness of the Rev. F. H. 
Allen, of Moss, I have been enabled to procure a sufficient number, without any 
risk of cddetenting t em in their original quarters, for As purpose of turning 
down in some of the waters in this district, in ; ag ee xg they will increase 
and multiply, and form an interesting addition 1 molluscan fauna.— 
OxLEY GRABHAM, M.A., Croxton Villa, Suen, Mae 7th, 1894. 
NOTE—COLE piece 
s linearis near Doncaster Good F spas ive b Asis 1894), 
were du Nip reset and on ay 6th resulted in three ahaa bo Campylus 
near: were One is o i ion, vi i 
$ n 
elytra ety faving a testaceous margin. The third i ; Lniiagad like No. 1 so far 
as rage ig goes, but it is father curiously oT king, as it does, the fourth 
nd fifth t i ate 
ecord 
specimens above cease. —E. G. Bay puRD, i May oth 
OS Ae watts idee 
c ee ee + oc he oast Northum- 
berland.—A fine specimen vd We rare fish was. capture red in the net yh the ere 
trawler ‘ Blackwatch,’ abou so off the Northumberland Coast betw 
Blyth and Newbiggin, on May e 8th. It is ene larger than the pea 
red by M Boone nee being phaie 6% inches or 172 mm, in length. It w 
sent by Capt. H enry Whitfi o Mr. J. F. Sparen: Mayor of Tynemouth, who 
kindly presented it to the Newcute Museum, When brought to Mr. Spence it 
quite lively, and swam freel out in a few gallons of sea-water in whi 
it was t was of a brilliant deep e colour on the upper pa 
figure given of the Redcar imen in the Proceedings of the Royal Physical 
Society. of Edinburgh, vol. 12. paly 18 803. "a 
o the Museum by Mr. Phillips 
of Newcastle, which had age caught by one of aa trawlers some distance out 
a the North Sea. It was sent for a Norwegian Haddock which it somewhat 
esembled, but ee ‘ach in pa aco ~~ a black ba on the Pe part of 
the operculum, and agrees as far e been able to compare it with the 
t emake RD 5 Howse, Suewon, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 
May 24th, 1894. 
NOTE—ORNITHOLOG ¥. 
Eccentric Nesting of Pheasant.—A singular apr rgst! Bel eccentricity in 
the choice of a site for a nest has eceilean here this s A Pheasant 
(Phastanus colchicus) has laid fifteen eggs in a sory tosses seca in a tall tree, 
between twenty and thirty feet from the ground. The eggs have been taken by the 
are 8 and placed phage hen, as there was considerable doubt whether the young 
uld reach the ground in safety.—R. A, SUMMERFIELD, North Stainley, 
patty pre 18th, rite 
Naturalist, 
