372 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES, 
It may not be generally known that nga and apo of pent are frequently 
brought up and down the Trent by boats as ballast, in want of a better cargo, and 
¢ thi 
an e on ‘ 
a market can be foun = ids or a fresh cargo is met with. Such blocks and 
e much use Tre 
et with a large boulder ve a road-side near here (basalt I — say 
from recaleton age! three feet 1 and of proportionate width and depth, 
and I was surprised, on getting it rainers ver, to find underneath the ma ae Y h 
biasdiia co. __It had no doubt been brought here as ballast in some ship, and i 
in attempting to gic them to the localities in which they appear.— 
Burton, Highfield, Gainsborough, 15th November, 1 
NOTE—ORNITHOLOG Y. 
The Kingfisher in North Lancashire.—In working out roughly the dis 
tribution of this sas in Haves of pakeleds 1892, p. 168, Mr. Macpherson 
almost omits North On authority of Mr. W. Duckworth, it is 
recorded from the Ulve toe district t, and this sis all. <A par: Ses in the ‘ Barrow 
News,’ July _ — called wr attention to the matter: 
IN eiecion of the Kingfisher was seen on 
Wednesday tat 3 in the ede Lickle, Two are reported as being up 
I accordingly wrote to Dr. Fawcitt, of a, for information, who replied 
rs ago a specimen was shot on the Lickle (a stream between 
y P hich lies on the other side of Broughton. Mr. Duckw rth wrote 
* Oct. 29th, at Tridley Point,’ and told me further of a certain 
gunner who admitted having shot twelve off t me post, at ifferent times; 
imen shot in Cartmel recently. ek 
a imen sho in 
is present on the outskirts, or shore area, in Furness ; and o ne _unlocat ' . 
Cartmel. Apparently not recorded for the neighbourhood of Windermere © 
Coniston Lakes. Is this true?—S. L. P PETTY, ot. Sth, 1897. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
Jo. 3 of his 
We have received from Mr. R. Charles, 2 progr Hants, No. 3 Thi 
collections of Eocene and ONieees fossils from the Hampshire Basin. 
a a . . 
n, al tg say no h the 
of recent shells will be i : etuded it 
: s will be pong in the few examples whi Sai are in gerne gee eae 
seen in northern collectio: ee a 
~ ‘Naturalist 
