Short Notes and Queeies. 



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Stone Curlew v. Norfolk Plover. — I thought naturalists liked to 

 use the oldest names for birds. Is not " stone curlew " older than 

 " Norfolk plover ?" I see in a book I have (mo?'e than 200 years old, 

 called " Pinax/' which gives a list of British birds) stone curlew is 

 mentioned, only it is spelled curliew fp. 182). It is said to come ''Ex 

 agro Hantoniensi/' which, I suppose, means out of ''Hampshire." In 

 " Selborne " it is called the same, and that is in the same county. In 

 Wiltshire and Dorsetshire the people always call it curlew (without the 

 "stone") from its note, which is just like that word, more so than the 

 whistle of the sea curlew. So I think " stone curlew " the most proper 

 name, for it is as much of a curlew as can be. — Fred N. Lowne, 

 Downton, Salisbury, August 8th. 



Peace and War. — At Felbrigge Park, near Cromer, a hedge sparrow 

 nested in one of the Waterloo cannons which stand on the lawn. I have 

 heard of a pair of tits hatching a brood in a bombshell (Field, June 20th, 

 1874), and I remember reading of a robin which nested in a shot-hole in 

 the mast of the "Victory" — Nelson's flag-ship, on board of which he 

 was killed at the battle of Trafalgar. — J. H. Gurney, Jun., Northrepps 

 Cottage, Norwich, August 4th. 



Carabus nitens Ar Richmond. — Coleopterists interested in geographical 

 distribution must feel thankful to Mr. Harris for publishing the occurrence 

 of the above, but, as the editors remark, it is not at all uncommon in the 

 county. Curtis, Dawson, and Stephens each make special mention of 

 Yorkshire as a locality where it occurs abundantly. In my own collection 

 I have one from Bingley moor, collected by Mr. W. D. Roebuck, who 

 thinks that it might not unfrequently be found in the same locality. — 

 Hy. Crowther, Leeds. 



Clivina fossor, Linn. — For two or three years the only specimens I had 

 of this interesting beetle were gathered by myself in Cheshire. This 

 y«ar, however, from specimens that have come into my hands, I have 

 been somewhat struck with its occurrence around Leeds ; of these, one is 

 from Agbrigg, near Wakefield, and two from Pannal, taken by Mr. W. 

 D. Roebuck ; a fourth was gathered a little beyond Ilkley, by Mr. C. 

 Smethurst, whilst a fifth was collected by myself in Newlay Wood, near 

 Leeds. It frequents decaying rubbish on the banks of rivers and canals, 

 or seeks the shelter of stones in woods, &c. Stephens says it may be 

 found anywhere or at any time, which must, like many of his statements, 

 be received with due caution, as the whole of the specimens I have seen, 

 which are dated, were taken both in Cheshire and Yorkshire, either in 

 May, June, or July. For the guidance of those who may have taken it 

 and yet not recognise it under its name, and thinking too that an enumera- 

 tion of specific differences of well-known forms is out of place, I may add 

 that there is a capital illustration in Rye's "British Beetles " of G. collaris, 

 a species differing principally in colour, the elytra being much lighter ; 



