320 Various Notes. 
NOTE—FLOWERING PLANTS. 
Plants Observed near Windermere.—Zodelia dortmanna and 
Vaccinium oxycoccos in bogs on height east of Windermere, a Tittle pte 
of Storrs. beh acsgie se is very rare in the Lakes, and I never saw elia. 
before in a high mountain tarn.—W. TUCKWELL, Waltham, Gurnee 
3rd September 1898. 
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NOTE—CONCHOLOGY. 
Testacella paneee. Gainsborough.—On the 22nd April last, 
I found a specimen of this slug, crawling over a gravel path in my garden 
upg a heavy shower of t rain, and forwa rded it = ta W. Denison Roebuck, 
F ape segs a Naturalists’ 
Union, “who submitted it to Mr. i W. Taylor, F. i S., for verification. 
a new record for Lincolnshire, but I have set wi jth j it, Bearer. | 
i d 
aba tie t fee on other living s and never on dead matter.— 
Ms BURTON. Highfield, al daneah: its May 1898. 
NOTE—MAMMALIA. 
Squirrels mero 7 oan Birds.—I see on p. 238 of ‘ The Neti 
ne Cordeaux me my name in thse? ha with the above, and states 
s be cha i 
s se s had the fact recorded to m 
whose tes se is beyond dis Aaerys roa also I have twice caught a Squirrel 
(Seirus eulgar) in fag barn delic Once when I was lying up in cover 
tching a Woodpeck wor e w 
Tx was sitting up in a tree walla patiently for some Badgers to come out of 
their earth, in the twilight. In the one case the victim was a young /hrush, 
and in the other case a Chaffinch. I know of one wood where nearly all the 
young birds, but this, in my opinion, was a great aga asI am borne 
out in my idea by several excellent naturalists, that it is, as a rule, only ome 
pair of squirrels out = a community that take to i evil courses. They,  — 
I admi i want shoot ng at once, but it is a great pity to make the many ~ 
suffer for the s pe of the few. —OXLEY y GRABHAM, M.A., M.B. 0. U., Heworth, 
York, 6th August 1898. 
BOOK NOTICES. 
We have received from Mr. Thomas Fairley, F.R.S.E., 
of the teste of Chemistry, and Leeds City Analyst 
aeons it paper ‘On the Water Supplies of ‘Yorkshi a 
ished last May in 24 Journal of the Federated Institutes of rior 
i is Ape cg ed nafs wo-page geological map © of ‘the county 
e che 
Vice-President 
t of an 
was 
Gish,” Mr. George have received a st pam amphi entitled 
Walks | Around | ington | an i 
Weardale, Teesdale, Sw ree | and Wensleydale,’ ioe . 
~ Jtersely-worde et direction ifferent walks. ue little venice 
2 pages in all, is not dated, and—if a 
‘eee of its 0 
