CONCHOLOGICAL NOTE. 



Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. Yorkshire. 

 Report of Meeting at Sherburn, June 2nd. Naturalist, July, ix. 220. 



Water Shrew {Crossopns fodiens), Common Shrew [Sorex tetragomirus), 

 Squirrel {Scmriis vulgaris), and Hedgehog {Erinaceus eitropcciis), noted. 



Report of Meeting at Hawes. Naturalist, August, x. 18. 



Mole {Talpa europcEo) observed swimming in the beck below Whitfield Gill 

 Force, Wensleydale, June 28th. 



Report of Meeting at Helmsley. Naturalist, September, x. 41. 



Water Vole [Arvicola a7nphibid\ caught in Beckdale, August 4th. 

 Report of Meeting at Spurn Point. Naturalist, November, x. 92. 



On the 3rd of September, Common Shrew {Sorex vulgaris)^ and Hedgehog 

 {Erinaceus eiiropceus), noted near the point of the headland. 



Various Writers. Cumb.,Westm.,Nthb.,Dhm.,Yks., Lines., Dby., Lanes., Ches. 

 Records of Otters and Accounts of Otter-hunts. 



F. Kirton and W. Oddie record their occurrence near Thirsk (Nat. Hist. 

 Journ., May 15th, viii. 80). W. J. Cummins records one killed near Witton- 

 le-Wear, Co. Durham, February 3rd, which weighed 11 lbs. , and measured 

 35 inches from nose to tail (Field, February 9th, p. 187). William Storey 

 records a female, three parts grown, killed in the Nidd at Killinghall, York- 

 shire, January 26th, very rare so far up that river (Field, March 22nd, p. 420). 

 'M. (Kelso)' records one caught in the nets at the Greenhill salmon fishery 

 near Norham, weighing 24 lbs., and measuring 4 feet 2 inches in length (Land 

 and Water, August 30th, p. 214). Records of Otter-hunting in Northumber- 

 land, Cumberland, Westmoreland, Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Cheshire, are 

 given in the Field, April 19th, p. 560; May 24th, p. 731 ; May 31st, p. 749 ; 

 and September 20th, p. 403; and in Land and Water, May 31st, p. 503; 

 August 9th, p. 142 ; August 30th, p. 225 ; September 6th, p. 249; September 

 20th, pp. 289, 293 ; and October 4th, pp. 342, 343. An anonymous paragraph 

 (Land and Water, January 5th, p. 16) records a 14 lb. Otter shot in the river 

 Glen near Spalding, a locality where they are very rarely met with ; ' G.B.' 

 gives a note of a terrier pulling down an Otter at Buhner Beck near Castle 

 Howard, N.E.Yorkshire (Land and Water, April 19th, p. 364) ; and 'Heron 

 (Derby) ' records that Otters are on the increase in the Derbyshire Derwent 

 (Field, May 24th, p. 712). 



Various Anonymous Writers. Lancashire, Westmoreland, Yorkshire. 



Range of the Dormouse \_Myoxus avellanariiis'\ in England. Field, April 5th, 

 p. 488 ; April 12th, p. 499; and May 3rd, p. 597. 



'Teucer' has seen it near Stamford Bridge in Yorkshire; 'B.' notes that 

 Gough's list of animals found within six or seven miles of Kendal, Westmore- 

 land (pub. 1861), describes it as 'not unfrequent,' and adds that whatever it 

 might have been then, its occurrence there is now very unfrequent ; ' A.C 

 notes that they were plentiful about ten years ago at Markington, Yorkshire ; 

 and ' Thurston ' records that five were secured in the spring of 1884 at 

 Nibthwaite, foot of Coniston Lake, by Thomas Dickinson, woodcutter. 



CONCHOLOGICAL NOTE. 

 Freshwater Shells near Manchester— The following is a list of 



the freshwater shells which I took from a pond in Baguley, Cheshire, one day in 

 July last: — Pahidina contecta, BytJiinia tentaciilata, Planorbis corneus, and 

 Anodonta cygnea, all very abundant, the last-named species being buried in the 

 mud. LitJinea atiricidaria, Limnea peregra^ and var. ovata, as welf as Planorbis 

 carinatus, were also there, but not in such numbers as the first-named species. 

 Dyson in his book on the Land and Freshwater Shells of the Manchester District, 

 does not mention either Pahidina contecta or Plano7'bis cornens as occurring in this 

 neighbourhood. I may mention that the pond in question has an area of about 

 three-quarters of an acre, and no stream of any size enters or leaves it. — Charles 

 Oldham, Syrian House, Sale, near Manchester, December 15th, 1884. 



Naturalist, 



