Peacock: Linc. Naturalists at Woodhall Spa and Tumby. 67 
entirely white with the exception of the tip of the tail), Club- 
tail or Weasel (on 29th June he saw a piebald specimen; it was 
very pretty). [The female is much smaller than the male, but 
which is the Club-tail I cannot learn for certain.—E. A. W.-P.]. 
Mr. H. M. Hawley, the Squire of Tumby, kindly supplied 
the following short Bird list:—Barn and Brown Owls, Ree 
Bunting, Redpoll, Goldfinch, Bald Coot, Peregrine Falcon, 
Hawfinch, Nightingale, Heron, Kingfisher, Greater and Lesser — 
Spotted Woodpeckers, Redstart, Creeper, Shoveller and Tufted 
Ducks, Quail, Woodlark, Wheatear (in Roughton Wood), 
Gold-crested Wren, Dipper, and Yellow Wagtail (as a winter 
Visitant). 
The following list of Fish from the Horncastle neighbour- : 
hood was supplied by the Rev. J. Conway Walter :—Trout, 
Grayling (imported from Claythorpe, where it was originally 
introduced; it is now breeding in the river Bain), Pike, Roach, 
Rudd, Dick Bleak (‘ Blick’ locally), Chub, Carp (ponds at 
Wispington, etc.), Bream (Witham, etc.), Tench (ponds 
at Woodhall, etc.), Minnow, Stickleback (the male who guards 
the nest, ‘Blue-eyed Sailor’), Millers Thumb or Bullhead 
(Horncastle Canal, Waring and Bain rivers, as much as four 
inches sometimes), Stone Loach (Horncastle Canal, etc.), Eels 
(everywhere), Burbot (Witham; it has the flavour of the 
Eel), Lamprey (or Nine-Eyed Eels, from the holes in its gills, 
Waring river) 
The following is a list of Lepidoptera seen or taken by 
W. Lewington between Woodhall Spa and Tumby:— 
Pieris brassicz. Epinephele hyperanthus. 
Pieris rape. Thecla quer 
Pieris napi. Polyommatus phloeas 
+ fare edus. = Sia $e: 
rgynnis aglaia. esperia thaumas. 
Argyiitis ca abia Spilosoma mendica. Two 
Vanessa io. rve. 
Vanessa mae Peilura eat 
Apatura i Plusia gam 
Pararge me; era. Geometra papilionaria 
Epinephele janira. Cidaria immanata. 
- Epinephele tithonus. Eubolia limitata. 
The following Insects, collected by W. Lewington and 
. A. W. Peacock, were named by Rev. A. Thornley :— 
EUROPTERA. us horto S oe 
: “ 
Sympetr Formica rufa. Severa 
egos: ‘rabro cribrarius. One 
HYMENOPTERA. rabro albilabris. One 
Vespa germanica. One §. Halictus leucopus. One ¢- 
Vespa vulgaris. One §. Apis mellifica. Two §s. 
Bombus lapidarius. “One o- 
March. 1899. 
