Notes — Amphibia and Concho logy. 



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oak leaves. It was very conspicuous, being- placed in a kid or 

 bundle of dead fir boughs, which had been flung down in 

 a perfectly bare, open spot in a fir plantation. 



2nd June. Down the Marsh. Saw Whinchats (Pratincola 

 rubetra), Ray's Wagtails (Motacilla rail), and Reed Buntings 

 (Emberiza schoeniclus), but failed to find their nests. Put an old 

 Lapwing ( Vanellus vanellus) off four very handsome heavily- 

 marked eggs in a hayfield. Up to Lea Wood. Identified 

 another Garden Warbler (Sylvia hortensisYs nest and eggs, and 

 a Greater Whitethroat (Sylvia sy'lviaVs. Coming back along the 

 G.N.R. found a Chaffinch (Fringilla ccelebsYs nest with blue 

 unmarked eggs, also what we thought was a Chiffchaff (Phyllo- 

 scopus rufus)'s nest, built in the middle of the thick hawthorn 

 hedge about three feet from the ground. It was a domed nest, 

 small and neat, built of dry grass and lined with feathers, and 

 contained two dark reddish-brown eggs, almost exactly like 

 those of a Titlark or Meadow Pipit. They were deserted, and 

 on blowing proved to have been laid some little time. I hoped 

 they were Tree Sparrow's eggs, as the place was some distance 

 from any house, but fear they must be put down as the product 

 of an eccentric House Sparrow (Passer domesticus). 



3rd June. Nested in the Amadam. Found two Brown 

 Linnet (Linota cannabina)' 's nests, and another Long-tailed Tit 

 (Acredula /w«)'s, also full of dead young. Found a Black- 

 cap (Sylvia atricapillays nest and identified the bird, also a 

 Greater Whitethroat (Sylvia sylviaYs. Saw a Sedge Warbler 

 f A otocephalus phi-agmilis), and a brood of young Water Hens 

 { Gallinula cliloropus) leaving their cosy-looking nest, and found 

 another Water Hen's nest with three eggs. Got a Stockdove 

 [Columba oe?iasYs egg in the garden. 



NOTE— AMPHIBIA. 



Natterjack Toad at Seascale.— Whilst at Seascale, on the coast of 

 Cumberland, my son caught on the railway a small Natterjack Toad [/info 

 calumitd)\ this was on the 12th September inst. We brought it home with 

 us. It is very interesting to see it run ; its mode of progress is quite distincl 

 trom that of the ordinary Toad or the Frog. Is this a new record? — JOHN 

 Fa k RAH, Jefferies' Coate, Harrogate, 25th September 1899. 



NOTE CONCHOLOGY. 



Helix lapicida, etc., near Grassington. At Easter this year 1 found 

 this species commonly in the crevices of the limestone rocks of the escarp- 

 ment on the north side of the Whairfe near Grass Wood, Grassington. 

 H. nc moral is was also common there. 



I also found the white variety of H. ericetorum on the river bank below 

 Linton Falls.— [Mrs. H. G.] Brierley, Huddersfield, uth May 1900. 



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