NOTE—BOTANY. 
Convallaria majalis in Cumberland : ection bay AE Oe ee 
‘Plants of S.W. Cumberland,’ at p. 141 of this plains ies read ‘at Stanley 
Gill’ instead of ‘at Stock Gill. )_LISTER PETTY, Ulverston, May 19th, 1893. 
NM OTE—M ie US CA. 
th: inst., while 
bilberries and cranberries. —W. DENISON ROEBUCK, Leeds, Aug. 26th, 1893. 
. 
NV sebuah ial OLOGY. 
meena killed by the frost.— the eather 
between Dec. roth, 1892, and Jan. 1oth 8954 the only bi birds found ‘killed ie the 
frost in the groun nds here were two Red s (Turdus us L.) apparently 
th es. One ae dead o: nite 6th “e ec the nies mgt ying ; I failed a 
resuscitate it, and it n the evening of the same day. I know what V 
says about their susceptibility to cold (Selborne Letter, Aug. Ist, panak ~~ even 
eg it iat arnie Late in December a couple of these birds were seen 
ough ravens abot us, whether a pair or the same two of cou ree ts cannot 
poet ares Petry, Ulverston, N. Lancs., May roth, 1893. 
Aaa Meo aicaacegaes 
ter Shrew at Louth, L 
pp hel fodiens), i in Monks aie Eos a. On the Fos a It ipa as if to 
ured a Water Shrew 
the manner born, and not after the mode of the Common hrew. was of 
opinion that it was wa. roiig es men call the ‘blind mouse,’ and the specimen 
on being submitted to competent authority was pronounced to be the Water Sheers — 
ered fens 
Lincolnshire ; burrows in the banks near water; = called by the fen men | 
blind mouse. A. R. Yeomax, Louth, 24th July, 1893. 
NOTE—COLEOPTERA. ao 
i at L Hull, and Newton-le-Willows.—I have this 
ccaomtil of ae ae beetle. found in 
nedlgetinie Send Me, SEL take, The cp pregeens 
t to r. ri. Mi " secon saw 
instrumentali fm friend Mr. Wm. Howard, of MCCorquodale & Co. 
eg : gags s wha we poling on Legere oie ote 
on the 9th August, by bricksetters, rho were point inting an old wall, in the wagon- 
nro petlg Paw Ry. Co. at Earlestown, Lancashire. ri ter 
