NOTE—MAMMALTIA. 
Albin of near Horncastle.—When the Lincolnshire 
Naturalists’ Union, vated Woodhall Spa Ja i a eee one of the party (I think 
Mr. W. F. Bak 
for its white t is true that, e°30 more years ago, a white Hare 
(Lepus fimidus). str seen in this pasha on say father’ sland. I made attempts to 
get it, but it was eventually shot in an along Ber rish. Since then I am no 
ans ‘of any other having See seen. ve occasionally shot a hare with white 
face, and so forth; and have a S eiies ails with white face and fore legs. 
Within the last few days, however, as some corn was being cut n7,8 re 
machine, the labourers captured a white leveret, three-quarters grown ; 2 nd \ 
Leedale, the tenant, is having it stuffed. This ccenceed : in the adjoining parish v 
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hall, but within a mile of where the former specimen was seen. ks, 
like an interesting case of ‘heredity’; the recurrence of a former type © 
animal, after an interval of so many years. I Amis it, as it gf possibly interest 
resins readers of ‘The Naturalist’ or some of them may be able to record similar 
cases.—J. Conway WALTER, Langton Rectary, Hopes Sept. 7th, 1894- 
~sSciaolins AND NEWS. 
Annals and ese oe Nene ried and in which he explains the object and 
us om 
r Las gis Aes ng on aissoet ‘ev ery sandy shore, and being known to mo 
cle vis 
—_—— 0 
s Jane Donald, s 21, Ridgway Place, Wimbledon, whose name will be 
familie fo many of our readers by reason of the good work she has done in the 
study of the fossil sicliwiss is at See studyi ng the genus Murchisonia, and 
would glad if readers of ‘The Naturalist’? would inform her of any privat 
collections containing specimens of this genus that she has not seen. Sh 
i ious to see any examples from orden, as met beg 
single very interesting form from that locality, and would like to examine mor 
it, if po: A reprint of a paper from her pen entitled, ‘ Notes on some Ne 
N 
1892, which lies before us, shows that she has already been able ie study se t Sacaor 
to some purpose, a“ site that all readers wna have it in their power will giv! 
the assistance she des 
on —- 
We have received a little book with two pages of title. The first is: ‘ What's 
in a Name? or, By Commander Scott Willcox, R.N.’; and the second reads a 
WS: « Co r 
eB ious 
together with the Generally Accepted Names and the Scientific Names of our 
British Birds.—To which are added Lists of those Birds which occasionally Nest 
ggs are very rare. Co ; : 
Shaftesbury Road, Southsea, One Shi ming «1 (bound in cath) ‘post fr 1/3. 
Paper Covers, Sixpence; post free, 74d.—1894. rinted and Pub sablished by 
Holbrook & Son. 154-155, Queen Street, Postemoati: , This lengthy title makes 
it superfluous to describe what the book consists of, and we would only a add nae 
e€ 
our regre e author contents himself wi merely givi he local nameS 
to ith m 
without adding (what every one will look for) an indication of the districts in which 
they are used. ; 
