5$f) Notes by John Anderson, Preston. 



he found it was the ' Three-Bearded Bock Ling' (Motella tricirrata). It 

 measured 16 inches in length, and Avas of a beautiful dark bluish colour, 

 with a number of variegated spots on either side, of about the size of a 

 sixpence." 



On a subsequent visit, in June, to the Dunbar Station, 1 found that the 

 fishermen, owing to their being paid, were saving more examples. 



It is probably the Motella vulgaris of Mr Howse's Catalogue, p. 34. He 

 records a specimen caught off Tyuemouth. 



AcMiEA TESTUDINALIS. 

 Of this pretty and rather rare Limpet, I picked up, June 28, 1890, a fresh 

 example of the shell on the sands at Druridge Bay, Northd. — J.H. 



Notes by John Anderson, Preston. 



Sports of Water Slireivs. — Besides the Common Shrew, 1 have only seen 

 another kind, very dark with a white belly, which maybe one of the water 

 ones. J never saw any running about except one very wet day a great 

 many years ago, when standing underneath a large beech on the side of a 

 ditch. It seemed to be a family party at a sort of game. They had roads 

 that crossed each other something like the figure 8, and when two happened 

 to be on the crossing at once, the one made a bite at the other, and gave a 

 squeak in passing. There would be eight or ten of them, and they kept 

 up their sport for a good half hour at least. 



Mouse destroying Crocus Bulbs. — There is a sort of Mouse destroys all 

 our Crocus roots here. They are most destructive on the white and blue 

 varieties ; but last year they commenced on the yellow sorts also. I think 

 they get into Moles' runs, and thereby gain access to the Crocuses. 



[The Mouse that destroyed Crocuses at Oldcambus and Bowshiel, was 

 the Long-tailed Field-Mouse (Mus sylvaticus). Last winter they thinned 

 out many clumps of yellow Crocuses in the borders at Bedheugh, having 

 got at them through the Mole runs.] J.H. 



Greater Spotted Woodpecker. — There has been another of the Spotted 

 Woodpeckers shot at Brockhole's Wood since the new year, by the Hon. 

 G. D. Home. It is the only one I have seen, and was a female in fine 

 plumage. 



Hawk-Moths. — I had a tine specimen of the Death's Head Hawk-Moth 

 (Acherontia Atropos) froui Mr Bogers, Primrosehill, who got it in one of 

 his bee- hives in summer, hanging in the corner like a piece of rag. He 

 thought it had destroyed his bees, as they were not getting on so well as 

 he expected them. I also got one of the Bedstraw Hawk-Moths (Deilephila 

 6 alii) hovering among the flowers. When I took it out of the net, one of 

 its antennae was missing, which accounted for its being so easily captured. 



Dodder. — I never saw Dodder till this summer, when I met with it on a 

 small bush of whin, and on heather on Hoardweel. I could see no seeds 

 or flowers on it. 



