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NOTES—-MAMMALIA. 
Otters in Litton pss ae the mprning: of 3rd cess st 1898, a fine Otter 
(Lutra ut ra) Was se y a farmer's son in the beck between Litton and 
Halton Gill about halt. a-mile from the ieee place. It is twelve months since 
ne of these rare vis ici was seen in the same es ie ahi years ago, 
sete three Otters were tak ar Hawkswick. They o be seen in a glass 
case at pes Falcon ini Arnclific- -W.A. BtiuePRey The’ Wiese. Arncliffe. 
s of the Red Deer, om the Peat Bed at Witherneee 
i ies 
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f it. It is only occasionally, when the sand is swept off, that this peat can 
e pro aly examined, and at such — Mr. Pygas makes it a practice to 
4 Unfortunately the skull is broken, seeks aa oe les to be ried to restore it. 
a The teeth, both in the Bpper and low are very perfect. Two large. 
: sses exist on the top of the skull peck aaah the erie have been 
broken 
m 
shed, not ‘: 
n antler of the Red Deer, from the same bed, adorns the walls of the 
‘Spread Eagle’ ithernsea, owned by fog 
I should like to peu this opportunity of ae out that hai remains 
various animals obtained from the so-called ‘ Forest Beds eH in 
ness Coast are of Post-Glacial age, and are not in any way coupacten with 
the ‘Forest Bed Series’ of the Norfolk coast. The whole of the peat beds 
on our ate rest upon the boulder clay; those at ‘Norfolk are under the 
glacial beds, and are consequently of much greater age and contain relics 
of an entirely different fauna.—THOM cs Selina: 78, Sherburn Street, Hull. 
Bones of a Whale in the Trent se near Newark.—A few weeks 
ago Mr. “Allred C. Elliott, of Newark, wrote a note to the * Nottinghamshire 
Gua ’ recording the discovery Of some huge bones at Farndon Field, 
near ip yak This letter was shown to me nila seins - z [om 
municating with Mr. F. M. Burton, of ae sbor i dt 
ps the specimens should be examined. Mr, Elliott renter ads conducted 
the writer to the place where age were found, and pointed out man 
of geological interest en route. e bones ihe obtained from the a iavhiais 
not far below the surface, on the "pasa of the waterway owned by the 
Newark Navigation Company, at a distance of about 1% miles south-west of 
Newark Station. They w were prats noticed by some fishermen whilst digging 
Yay i i 
is quite possible that they merely represent a specimen brou 
Humber by of the smaller craft which ‘ply up and down the’ Trent, eg 
it is ieee li ‘kel y , seeing that they 
can be put to su h good ‘use ina variety of th be ee any punt the find 
eoncd be of ‘a eieut to some readers of ‘The Na tefrulist.”: a nd our best thanks 
_are due to Mr. Elliott (who, though professedly not a eolone has a great 
interest i in rately history) for having called attention to them in the first” 
instance.—THO as SHEPPARD, » 2, Sherburn Street, Habs roth ee 1898. 
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