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the skins, offering good prices, in almost every local newspaper, and 
thus the poor Otter has to die because it wears a fur undercoat, and 
this same is considered an important and aristocratic decoration for 
the neck and wrists of his arch-enemy, man ! 
I understand an unusual number of Salmon have been netted in 
“the run” at the outflow of the river, and on account of the flooded 
condition of the stream during the winter a considerable quantity of 
fish were able to ascend for spawning purposes, as testified by the 
number of ‘“‘kelts” that take the fly, but of course are returned to the 
water; yet a good number of ‘“‘clean-run” fish—nearly thirty I have 
heard—have been taken within afew miles with rod and line, several 
of them scaling over thirty pounds each—one of thirty-nine pounds 
—and if the river was as clean and suitable as formerly a good hatch- 
ing should be the result ; but I hear that desirable condition is not 
attainable, and I suppose the natural enemies of the young fry are 
rather increased than otherwise in the increasing numbers of the 
Chub, which is not spoken of very favourably in some quarters.— 
G. B. Corsin (Ringwood). 
AMPHIBIA. 
Common Newt (Molge vulgaris) in Carnarvonshire.— Up to the 
time when my ‘Vertebrate Fauna of North Wales’ went to press I 
had no actual evidence of the occurrence of the Common Newt in 
Carnarvonshire or Anglesey, although both the other species are 
common there. Last summer, however, Mr. D. Witty, of Colwyn 
Bay, sent me an adult male Molge vulgaris which he had taken along 
with others from a small pond on the Little Orme’s Head. The 
neighbouring ponds contained none of this species, but numbers of 
Palmated and Great Warty Newts.—H. H. Forrest (Hillside, Bayston 
Hill, Shrewsbury). 
ARACHNIDA. 
Curious Habits of Chelifers——With regard to the Editor’s note in 
‘The Zoologist’ (ante, p. 77) on the occurrence of a species of 
Chelifer on the wings of a Longicorn beetle in Natal, and his 
further reference to a similar record from Kilimanjaro, it may be of 
interest to add an instance from Ceylon. I have on more than one 
occasion taken Chelifers (in one instance as many as seven) from 
beneath the elytra of one of our largest Longicorn beetles. Chelifers 
—probably of several species—are quite common under the loose 
bark of various trees in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya. 
They construct small circular retreats of fine silky web. On prizing 
