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MOLLUSCA. 



Helix cartusiana in Suffolk. — In September, 1898, I found a single 

 shell of this species at Little Glemham, Suffolk, in a small pit where there 

 are veins of chalk in the soil. It was a " dead shell," but in excellent con- 

 dition, and so fresh looking that it must have been living very recently. 

 .To make certain of the species, I submitted it to Mr. G. B. Sowerby, who 

 pronounced it to be a typical specimen of Helix cartusiana. The place 

 where it was picked up is some six or seven miles from the coast, and the 

 character of the surrounding country very unlike the usual habitat of this 

 species, it being rather enclosed and fairly wooded. H. cartusiana is not 

 included in the Rev. Carleton Greene's list of the Laud and Fresh-water 

 Shells of Suffolk, and has not, so far as I am aware, been hitherto observed 

 in any part of the county. In the adjoining parish of Marlesford a small 

 obscurely marked variety of H. ericetorum occurs in some numbers. The 

 ground colour is rather darker than in the type, and the banding either 

 entirely absent or only faintly indicated. I have a single shell from Wood- 

 bridge of a similar variety, but much thinner, more fragile, and semi- 

 transparent. Throughout a great part of East Suffolk this species rarely, 

 if ever, occurs ; Witnesham, near Ipswich, however, is given as a locality 

 in Mr. Greene's list, on the authority of the Rev. J. W. Horsley. — G. T. 

 Rope (Blaxhall, Suffolk). 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



The Vertebrates of Berkshire. — Are there any lists extant of the 

 vertebrate fauna of the royal county ? If so, I should be greatly obliged 

 to any reader or contributor of ' The Zoologist ' who would kindly inform 

 me in what publication or publications such lists are to be found. I 

 noticed in the * Field ' a week or two since that in the class Aves upwards 

 of two hundred and fifty species have occurred, including, of course, the 

 rarer visitants. — W. H. Warner (Fyfield, near Abingdon). 



