NOTE-ORNITHOLOGY. 
Unusual Nesting-Places of es Moorhen.—During my rambles in ih 
the past week I have come across the following curious (to me) places for : 
(1) The we of a small fir tree about oe feet high and about 100 yards i 
from any wa This contains two eggs only, which the birds are sitting. re 
2) In ‘fie recy mi idle of a thick Sess n- bush over hanging a pond, 
about six feet from the water. is contained eight eggs. “an 
(3) At the top rors fir tree, quite 14 feet from the ground and 20 yards a 
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troy a know if this information will be of seabereas or not, but I have 
h in such positions before.—E. BANkKs, ‘Salimarehe: 2 
Howden, sth May 1898. * 
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NOTE—ANTHROPOLOGY. 
Lake Dwellings at Pickering.-_The int issued Journal of the 
Ant so Dk clara sang (for ee st “ee November nen contains an 
interesting paper on ‘Evidence of Lake wetines gs on the ss of the 
Costa, near Pickering, North Riding of Fre by Capt n the Hon. 
Cecil Dunco F.G. t appears that whilst a stream was bai ig cleared . 
out in the econ of 1893, Mr. Mitchelson, of the ll, Pickering, noticed 
some pieces of rude pottery had been thrown out. Other finds were made, and 
subsequently four rows of piles in the vicinity, crossing the 
Costa, at a distance of about 100 yards from each sag ae: rows of 
piles seem to converge upon a point Soerittioe the centre of a quasi island, 
which it is thought represents the site of a group of La ke Devel similar 
obtained to fill a cart, it would seem that a find of no mean importance has 
een made. The bones include ibe of man, deer (3 species), horse, 
longifrons, sheep, — Pig olf, fox, otter, beaver, voles (‘ different 
kinds" ), and bi rds. Theh n hones s igre of the remains of at least four 
individuals, and show chat they were a short but mai! set of people. — 
Neither poet nor metal instruments of any kind w t with, and aes ‘ 
pottery is very thick and of a rude type. The ete at are consider 
to be of very great mo aie (earlier than the Crannogs of Ireland a 
Scotland) ae are referable to the age as the Ulrome Lake Dwellings 
in Holderness; certainly in wears case the remains are covered by an 
ormous acc umulation of peat. The author discusses the probable origin 
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upon; nevertheless, it is ge eeehoreree that t n remains should 
resemble each other in having belonged to ephieaneta small individuals. 
The siclotan of an adult female geen that she could not have exceeded 
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accompanied by a p plate showing ‘Fragments of coarse Pottery, and 
antlers and limb- bones of Deer ( Cervus); also perforated tines of antlers of 
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with the specimens collected, appears from the 
2 oceeeas of the erkahics Geological and polpesinie ‘Society for 1 
(pp. 21-24).--T. SHEPPARD, Hull, oth January 1899 
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