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NOTE on MOLLUSCA and FISHES. 



Frost and Limnxa pcregra. On tin* ;th J.inu.in 1901 I found foui 

 living Lintfuto ptregra in a wooden bucket which had been used for Riling' 

 a cattle trough from an adjacenl drain, and had been left on the bank full 

 of water. The ice In it, the result of four days' frost, was more than an inch 

 in thickness. The most remarkable point was the position of tin* Limncra. 

 They had grouped themselves on one side, a9 Ear as possible from Che effect 

 of the keen easterly wind. 



Nine Sticklebacks ( Gnsterosteus aculeatus) had shared their limited 

 quarters but only the two largest were alive T. Tin 11, lledon, I lull, 

 2 1 si January 190 1 . 



NOTE on HOLDERNESS BIRDS. 



Holderness Bird Notes, Christmas 1000. The most striking feature 

 of bird life during Christmastide was the extraordinary abundance of our 

 commoner migrants. Fieldfares 1 Turdus pilaris) and Redwings ( /' iliacus) 

 literally covered the taller hawthorn hedges, which fortunately had produced 

 a record crop of haws. Near the coast, at Aldborough, Fieldfares were 

 common, bill there were no Redwings. Several of the latter succumbed 

 to the slight frost of 3rd January. 



The appearance of unusually large floeks of Golden Hover ( Charadrius 



pluvialis) and Lapwing ( Vanellus vanellus) induced several farmers near 

 the Humber to add to their income by netting, which was not formerly 

 practised in the district En contrast it is pleasing to note that the farmers 



in the Lambwath area recognise the usefulness ol the ' Green Hover,' and, 

 though freely granting permission to shoot DueU on their temporary lakes, 

 request that it shall not lie destroyed. 



Numbers of Mallard {Anas bosc/ias), Widgeon (Marvca penelope), and 

 Teal [Quetqufidula crecca) visited these Hooded fields in the evenings, hut 

 I did not hear of any Pochard {Fuligula ferina) being shot there this 

 winter. Four Were killed last year lone in a rat trap) in such good plumage 

 that their owners protested against their being styled " common.' Skeldrake 



{Tadoma iadorna were t ». * be seen on several occasions in the Hull game 

 shops. This seems an introduction of the London custom of exhibiting 

 Gulls. Owls, etc., 'just for ornament.' 



A Hock of Grey Plover {Sguatarala helvetica) was seen inland at Hilton 

 (four miles from Hull) on 21st December, and a single bird at Aldborough 

 on Sth January. 



A pair of Stonechats (Pratincola rnbicola) took up their abode on the 

 cliff at Aldborough at the end of October, and were still there on 8th 

 January. It occurs occasionally in February, but I have never found it 

 breeding- in Holderness. 



No Bramblings (Fringilla montifringilla) or Snow Buntings ( Pled ropha ties 

 nivalis) were seen at Aldborough in 1900. — T. Petch, Hedon, Hull, 21st 

 February 1901. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



The Council of the Geological Society has this year awarded the 

 Wollaston Medal to Dr. Charles Barrois, of Lille, the Murchison Medal to 

 Mr. A. J. Jukes-Browne, and the Bigsby Medal to Mr. G. \V. Lamplugh. 

 The first-named is best known in this country by his memoir on the Fnglish 

 Chalk, published in 1877; and it is a curious coincidence that the two 

 English geologists selected have also carried out important researches in 

 the Cretaceous strata, especially of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, as well ;>s 

 in the Glacial geology of those counties. 



Naturalist, 



