A r 6tes — Om ithology. 



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Since the above records were in print the following" specimens 

 and notes have come to hand : — 



Brassica adpressa Boiss. Alien. S. 13. Court Leys, Nov. 

 1899; Miss S. C. Stow. From a 'seed-field.' 



Daucus. Two specimens have come to be named from the 

 same ' seed-field ' at Court Leys. They may be nothing- 

 more than off-type forms of D. Cnrotn Linn., for Mr. F. A. 

 Lees and I have equally failed in running- them down in any 

 books we possess. I will send them to London, and ' The 

 Naturalist ' shall have a short note later. ' Seeds,' as we 

 locally call red and white clover and rye-grass mixtures, 

 are now grown in all parts of the temperate world, and as 

 there is a constant exchang-e between the centres of growth, 

 aliens from one or two continents may be found in one 

 patch of ' grass.' 



Iris spuria Linn. My friend Mr. F. A. Lees has pointed out to 

 me that mixed packets of the seeds of this and other species 

 of Iris can be purchased from Barr and other seed-merchants, 

 from 3d. to 6d. a packet, for 4 naturalising- in wild g-ardens, 

 woodlands, etc.' This does not settle the problem quite. 

 I have only seen one type Iris fcetidissimci from this county, 

 Div. 16. in Herb. Brit. Mus., and Iris spuria from Huttoft. 

 We may have a case of Selinum carvi folia Linn, over ag-ain, 

 collected specimens having- been wrongly named foetid 'isszma, 

 by authority, which I knew were nothing' of the kind. The 

 painting- in Dr. Burg-ess' collection is not to be relied on, he 

 tells Mr. F. M. Burton. So nothing- remains but tf> wait 

 till next season and bring- a typical series of specimens from 

 all our known localities together. 



NOTES— ORNITHOLOGY. 



Birds Laying in One Nest.— On the 5th July 1898, while going- over 

 a meadow for the Notts. County Council at Appleby, Nat. Mist. Div. _\ 

 . North Lines., we put a Partridge {P&rdix perdix) off her nest. She was 

 sitting on two Pheasant's eggs and three of the Red-legged Partridge 

 [Caccabis rufa L.) as well as her own, which numbered ten if I remember 

 rightly. I have known two, but never three, birds to lay in one nest before. 

 — E. Adrian Woodri efe-Peacock, Cadney, 8th February igoo. 



Geese and Swans and Severe Weather near Horncastle. During 

 the severe weather in the second and third weeks of February we had 

 various unusual wild fowls about in Mid Lincolnshire. On 5th February 

 a large flock of Wild Geese, the 'Grey Lag' [Anser ctnereus), passed over 

 me when rabbiting, apparently steel ing tor the I lumber. On the i.nh 

 a flock of Wild Swans (Cv£>i//s m itsicus) passed over the marsh country 

 between here and Burgh. — J. CONWAY WALTER, Langton Rectory. I lorn- 

 castle, 17th February 1900. 



1900 March 2, 



