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H.W., Birmingham. — We are obliged for 

 your notes, but do not publish them as 

 similar records have already appeared 

 from your district, and yours are now so 

 old. Besides, we doubt if some of them 

 are correct. For instance, you speak of 

 taking great numbers of Gothica at sugar 

 on 14th July! The note will be a most 

 curious one if true, but wo think there 

 must be some mistake. We once took a 

 wasted female ourselves in June, but to 

 take " great numbers " in July seems diffi- 

 cult to understand. Show the specimens 

 to Mr. Bath, the secretary of your field 

 club, and let us know what he calls them, 

 and in future send us your notes as they 

 are made. 



EXCHANGE. 



Duplicates. — Svffumata, Biuiidularia, 

 'Gemina, Hujifia, Fcmiginca, Velleda^ Lvci- 

 vara, Oleravea, Plecta^ 2\'ehulosa, Iristata, 

 Sylvata, Ccesiatay Tree Grasshopper, — Meco- 

 ninui t^aria, &c., &c. I shall be glad to send 

 to anyone for box and return postage. — 

 \. Harrison, 7, Victoria Bridge, Barnsley. 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS 



Birmingham Notes. — Shells at Dudley. 

 Found the following shells at the Wren's 

 Nest, on Saturday. 4th March ; — Cochlicopa 

 triderUf one, under moss ; Clau4tiUa ruyoiu, 

 "fourteen, among roots of grass growing on 

 ridges on the face of rock ; Helix arbtutoruin, 



three, hybernated under moss ; Bispida, 

 one, and roturidata, sixteen, under moss; 

 Zonitca nitidus, three; nitidulug, one, and 

 ccllarius, nine, under moss and pieces of 

 rock. The limestone here was crowded 

 with fossils. 



Found the following shells at Selby Oak, 

 on 1 2th March : — Helix asjfena, four (also 

 some young ones) ; hiejfida, ten, nevuyralu 

 var. hortensis, thirteen, and rotundata, nine, 

 under dead leaves in a copse ; Claiuilia 

 rujosa, four ; Z nitidus, four ; C trident, two 

 under moss on an old tree stump. Saw the 

 following plants in flower same day :— Aider 

 {altms glutinosa), Red Dead Nettle {Lamium 

 piirpurcum), Lesser Celandine {Uajumculus 

 Jicaria), Hazel {Corylus avelhna), Dog's 

 Mercury [Mcrcurialis jjc/eri'-in), Groundsel 

 {Sctiecio vuljaris), Chickweed {Stellaria 

 media), Daisy {BdVm 2>ci'ciLiiis), Dandelion 

 {Leontodon tiraxicaub), Furze {IJlex Euro- 

 peus), Wood Anemone [Aminojw nemorosa], 

 Sallow {^Salix cuprea), and the Stitchwort 

 {Stellaria kolonuu), and Lesser Wood Rush 

 in flower same place on 19th March. 



Found the following shells on the Canal 

 bank, at King's Heath, on i8th March ; — 

 Helix mnioralis, a splendid one-banded 

 specimen, hybernated ; Z fulvon$, two, and 

 nitidus, a few under moss ; C, tride/is, three, 

 and luhrica two, under moss ; Vltrina pellu- 

 cida, two three dead ones under moss ; 

 Limuscb stagnalis, found some very largo 

 ones in a pond near ; and saw the following 

 plants not mentioned in previous list : — 

 Primrose {Primula vulgaris), and Cowslip 

 {P. veri»), Daffodil {Narcissus pseudo-narcis- 

 »us), a held covered with them near May 

 Pole, on Alcester Road. 



A gentleman was out for a walk the other 

 day at Selby Oak, when his dog suddenly 

 ran towards a bird that had fallen as if 

 shot. He called his dog off, and picked up 

 the bird, which was one of the Great Grey- 

 backed Shrikes, a bird that is rarely found 

 round here."G. F.WnEgLDON, iiirmingham. 



