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Friend: Annelids at Heaton Moor, Stockport. 



generally seek for it on rubbing-posts, palings, rough walls, 

 trees, and gates. I once had the opportunity of watching what 

 birds came to a row of posts for lining material. When living 

 at home at Bottesford Manor, North-West Lincolnshire, I had 

 a wooden gun-room and workshop in a plantation adjoining the 

 garden. In front of one window that faced the south was 

 a fence composed of larch posts and barbed wire. Chaffinches, 

 Linnets, Greenfinches, and Goldfinches all came here to get the 

 material for nest lining. They used to perch first on a post, 

 then hop on to the wire close to where a bunch of hair was 

 sticking at the back of one of the barbs ; this they worked 

 at until they had extracted half-a-dozen or so hairs which they 

 carried crosswise in the bill. I thus became aware of the nests 

 of these little songsters. Even the breed of sheep that graze in 

 our fields may more or less be determined by one who under- 

 stands wool-lore. These facts cannot be of much use to us in 

 the old country, but in unexplored districts little facts like these 

 often help the field naturalist and sportsman to determine 

 whether or not a bird or an animal visits a certain district. 

 Those who have made a study of the different sorts of Caddis- 

 Worms must have noticed what a various collection of objects 

 they get together when house-building. Shells of freshwater 

 molluscs often form a conspicuous part of their movable homes. 

 On one occasion a shell was obtained in this way which up to that 

 time had been sought for in vain, although diligent search has 

 brought it to light since then. 



From notes made ioth August 1887. 



NOTE on LANCASHIRE ANNELIDS. 



Annelids Noted at Heaton Moor, near Stockport.— On 4th March 

 1899, during- a brief visit to Heaton Moor, between Stockport and Manchester, 

 I was able to devote an hour to collecting-. The weather was bad, and 

 I was therefore driven off the field without obtaining any earthworms save 

 two common species. The day will be memorable, however, because it has 

 yielded a white worm which is evidently new to science. I propose to name 

 this species Enchytreeus pellucidus. It is a typical white worm with all the 

 usual characters of the Enchytraeids, and has setae in four bundles of four in 

 front and three behind. The list for the day numbers five species. . 



Allolobophora calignosa (Savigny). Under an old tree stump by the Peel 

 Moat, Heaton Moor. 



Allolobophora chlorotica (Savigny). Same locality. 



Tub if ex tivulorum Lam. In streamlet behind the Home' for Incurables, 

 Heaton Moor. 



Pachydrilus verrucosus Clap. Same locality. Only one specimen was 

 procured, but there is little reason to doubt the accuracy of the identification. 



Enchytreeus pellucidus Friend. In manure heap, Heaton Moor; new to 

 science. About twenty specimens taken, adult, in good condition. — Hilderic 

 Friend, Ocker Hill, Tipton, 14th March 1899. 



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