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the sill of a weir, and a man, quietly fishing in broad daylight, had 
been startled by an Otter silently stealing under the cover of a thick 
hedge and plunging into the river within a few feet of where he sat. 
An amusing story is told of another fisherman, who, sport being bad, 
was half dozing, when he was suddenly aware of some creature 
protruding its head and shoulders from the water near his float. 
He had never seen such an animal before. It was too much for him, 
and he bolted, and only came back to secure his rod after carefully 
watching if the mysterious creature had disappeared. I need hardly 
say it was an Otter. 
NOTES—ORNITHOLOG Y. 
Th jar in sare ae —I feel tempted = —- a few remarks on this 
~— bird suggested by Mr. Friend’s soe whic’ ed in the August issue 
of ‘The Naturalist.’ It is periinel true that ee europaeus L. is really a 
rara avis Aisa the es, yet in my precy I have noted its presence around 
Ullswater, about Bennet Head in —— parish, at about 900 to 1,000 feet 
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among dead leaves overshadowed by ne 
these binds suddenly alighted on the deck vit a coasting vessel in M rt Harbour, . 
the crew, who are ed upon it with ps pages as they had 
never seen a bird with such a wide extent of gape, or as one of them said ‘with 
hair inside its mou wing to se nocturnal flight of the niin jar; | it is seldom 
seen, even where not rare.—W. Hop son, A.L.S., Workington, Sep. 26th, 1895- 
ydding ae have pleasure in utting on pees 
th of the Hawfinch Niche cece enlger) in Yas at On the 
3ist of July, of this year, Mr. W. Hoffman Wood, of Ben Rhydding, sent me for 
identification a specimen of this bird, which he said had committed suici icide by 
g aie the netting around the tennis lawn of the village. —HENRY 
CROWTHER, The Museum, Leeds, Nov. 18th, 1895. 
—From a copy of ye Bewick’s ¢ British _ Birds,’ 
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the following ig are taken. They are made in pencil on the margin of the page, 
and appear all to fall between the dates 1810 and 1818. The nomenclature, 
Sasibanh Late is Thomas Bewick’s, 
ag White-tailed Eagle (Falco albicilla L.).—‘ One shot at Hessle a few year 
0’ (p. 51). No doubt this could be traced in the loca I papers of the 
Sie: 
The Wryneck (Zynz torquilla L.).—* Tw 163 shot near Norwood, 1818’ (p> 138). 
The Green Woodpecker Sioide hag fs Very common’ (p. 141). 
The fhe ott ae er (Pics pti L.).—* One shot in Hems- 
in the year 1817” (p. 145). 
The Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra L.).—‘ One in the yew tree in Hems- 
worth Churchyard’ (p. 155).—E. ADRIAN Woobmutes Paacteks Cadney , 
Vicarage, Brigg. 
Naturalist 
