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372 Various Notes. 
NOTE—-REPTILES. 
Yorkshire Vernacular Names for Reptiles.—Adders are known as 
‘Hag Worms,’ and Newts as ‘ Askeds. —OxLEY GRABHAM, York, roth Oct. 
1898. 
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NOTE— ENTOMOLOGY. 
Yorkshire yous Names of Insects. — At ington, in 
Holderness, Gnats are called ‘ Agate ape ee ‘Pu sting. robins and 
ok long-legs ‘Tommy taylor In r parts of the county Ants 
called ‘ Pismires,’ “Ean wigs “Twitch: balls. ree Moths “Buse rds 
ark: GRABHAM, M.A .B.O.U., York, 1oth October 1898. 
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NOTE-MAMMALIA. 
Yorkshire Ad plasrigees? Names for Mammals,.—It may not be out of 
place to mention here a few county names ria various mammals. <A Mole, 
‘Moudie’ and ‘ Moudi iewarp’; Hedgehog, ‘ Ariel oie? and ‘ Prickle-back 
Hurchin.’ The Shrews are known as ‘Blind Mice,’ but one keeper I knew 
always called them ‘Artystraws.’ On inquiry T messi or he was a Gloucester- 
shire man, though w hather this is a usual name there I am unable to 
say. Badger, rock’ and ‘Gre io pot Clubster,” ‘ Clubstart,’ and 
*Foumart’ ; Tertet, Marten Cat” os Fan ‘Grass Cat’; Rats, ‘ Rattons’; 
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At Easington, in hie LEN, BS a tis rt vl asa F wcsoanaarpinene ne 
aes is a Moldard,’ and a Weasel ‘“Wressel.’ The name ‘ Gru 
the Hedgehog is used in the Wakefield district. —OXLEY Grasuiie; 
York; roth Gevbber 1898. 
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NOTE—FISHES. 
unfish at Redcar.——I have to record a sere Pager tg Larter. gee 
moa) Pye by a Redcar past jaa on ue Oct red about 
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att ength, so was ete Peace n. Se t was on ihe is ror ‘the sarin © 
—a wt a OBEY ¢ cor —and the gaff into it and got it into 
his boat:—- T.-H. LSON, The Cliffe, gem sath October 1898. 
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_ NOTE—BOTANY. 
Cornus sanguinea: a New Record (?) for ore Yorkshire—Lune 
Basin.—-Whilst eiag: over an old London Catalogue marked for Leck, 
West Lancashire, | came across a note o n Cornus sangut nee L. in hedge, 
roadside from Yenholmes Hall to Burton, "Yo rkshire—i.e., ‘Black’ Burton 
—1892, some hundred yards beyond the bou ince, line of the counties. AS 
" the species was not r ecorded in the ‘ Flora of West Yorkshire,’ I wrote to 
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all it ‘? Denizen or planted.’ The speci enough in the 
Psurvarri area of Silverdale, the other end of ee Lancashire, v v.c. 60.— 
