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TRENT FISHES NOT MENTIONED IN DRAYTON’S 
‘ POLY-OLBION.’ 
FW. GARR, MLA: FOULS: 
Professor of Biology in University College, Nottingham. 
In addition to the species enumerated in the ‘ Poly-Olbion’ 
(‘ Naturalist,’ February 1898, pp. 33-36), the following fishes” 
occur in the Nottinghamshire Trent :— 
Miller’s Thumb (Cottus _ L.). Common. ss 
Sticklebacks are abundant; the 4 
Three-Spined aon pega onside aculeatus L.) 
is the prevalent form, but t 
Ten-Spined Stickleback Gunes pungitius L.) also 
occurs. 
Burbot (Lota Rha Cuv.). This occurs in the Trent, 
but not common 
Spined eck ‘(Cobitis tenia L.). Scarce. 
Shad (Clupea alosa L.). Has been taken in the Trent at | 
South Clifton. 
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RATUM.—In ficanote 2 on n Crayfish p- ei sae ai Dove, 
hich 
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a bees of the Derwent . ead ‘the 
Dove, a tributary of the Trent. : 
17th Feb, 1898. a 
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NOTES—ORNITHOLOGY. 
Turtle Dove in the ere ire Fylde.—On i4th Sept. 1897, whilst 
shooting at Pillin ois the Fylde district of ae Lancashire, two Turtle 
Doves ( Zurtur turtur) were flushe out of a small covert, one of them being 
shot. The bird was immature. " Kevan rding to Mitchell's ‘ Birds of Lanca- 
shire,’ the Turtle Dove is a rare visitor to this county. EDWARD T, BALDWIN, 
es Gloucester bore, Portman’Square, London, W., 14th taney 1898. 
Blac ted Diver in the Humber Estuary.—A very fine speci- 
men of the BiecWhebathe Diver Colymbus Nahigone was shot on February 1st 
by Mr. C. M. Wawn, of Hul bebgeede shooting in the estuary of the Humber. 
There was a stiff breeze oat "the e from the north-west, the bird came 
flying rapidly in a south- ~easterly direcrian right over the boat, about 20 yards 
high, and fell almost — ngside. et s being stuffed b y Mr. Philip Loten, 
naturalist, of Easington.—-C. M. riety Easington, Hull, 10th Feb. 1898. 
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NOTES oe NE WS. 
Some Shey on mae Na and Origin of Species’ are offered 
by M fr. J. W. Tutt, F.E-S., a Presidential Alldrens to = City of London 
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with the Ri chieigih ‘that it bears the i _— thiroughons of oa persaitien 2 
and mental Bitehig a’ which so eminently chara eterine all the author's - 
writings. ‘ 
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