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the same size as my own. The third (c) in the ditch about” Be 
a foot below road level is partly buried in the bank, and its size 
cannot be accurately ascertained ; but it is thicker than my own, | 
say some21% ft., shorter than my. own, about 3 ft., but how far 
it is embedded in the bank we cannot say. Of he remaining 
boulder (d) which is in the ditch, two feet below road level, only 
one side is visible, which is between 2 ft. and 3 ft. long, thick- 
ness and other dimensions not known. The boulder (c), one 
foot below road level, is remarkable for having on its surface 
the matrix of an ammonite, about 10 in. in diameter and 2 in. 
er so deep. This locally is supposed to be the impression of a 
a horse’s hoof, surmised to have been left ets the steed of a local 
St. George fighting his dragon. ee 
Mr. T. Sheppard, of the Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists’ 
Club, visiting me on the 3rd of this month (July 1899) inspected 
these boulders ; we scraped the soil away from the surface of this 
particular boulder (c), and he agreed that there was no doubt 
that the impression was that of an ammonite of large size. He 
chipped fragments from the different boulders, and pronounced . 
them all to be ‘Spilsby sandstone (Neocomian).’ They are very 
hard, from the presence of carbonate of lime. 
We have many smaller boulders in the parish; and in the 
adjoining parishes of Woodhall and Thimbleby some large ones. 
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NOTES—ORNITHOLOGY. _ 
Unusual Nesting-place of a Spotted Flycatcher.—We have at the \ 
present time a pair of Flycatch up four young ‘ 
ones in a Swallow's nest. The nest is about seven feet from the around and 
is situated under the roof that overhangs the driver's seat of an old van, 
o asa k-room. Swallows 
disturbed, as they then forsook the nest, which was later on aay tLe 2 ession | 
of ne the Flycatchers, who used the nest just as it was.—S. C.S ww, Court — 
Leys. Brandon, Grantham, 16th August 1899. 
— e Number of Eggs of the Blue Titmouse. —I lately saw ina : 
ess Vicarage garden (Mappleton, near igh ote: a nest of oe Lobe (Parus — 
perio: in a disused with 1 e hen was ntly seen 
roth July 1 
