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How to Make Field Notes. 



Cad)iey, Lines. 24/9/1893. Watched one throug-h g-l^iss carrying- wheat 

 to its nest. It is rare here. 



Xe^vstead, Lines. 12/12/1901. There is a nest on the old neolithic 

 barrow facing- causey. 



247. Corviis fmgilegus, Rook. 8 



Harrington, Northants. 13/10/1887. Watched rooks in the act of taking- 

 the walnuts [Jiiglans regia) from the trees, and burying- them in moss, or 

 as frequently under or in the cakes of cow dung-. I have observed them 

 hiding- acorns, too, in the same way years ago at Bottesford, Lines. 



The same, 21/1/1888. Rooks are busy now ieeding- on their hidden 

 walnuts. The ground is lightly covered with snow. Is it luck or how do 

 they find them ag-ain ? How_can they remember the exact spot? I can 

 see nothing- which can give the clue. 



Cadney, Lines. 121^^1 iSc)S. A pair have g-radually emptied a partridg;e's 

 nest on the North Carr Bank. They carried the eg-g's on their bills ; and 

 ate, or was it sucked, them on the road? 15/5/1898. Have found 13 egg- 

 shells, but can't be certain, even through g-lass, whether to call it eating' or 

 sucking^ — rather think it is a little of both. 



The same, 11/1/1899. Rooks are busy in the snow finding- the acorns we 

 saw them burying in moss last autumn. Do the bents tell them where they 

 are? They are the only things above the snow. Only Cynosurus and 

 Dactylis, here and there, in Pulham Dale bybeck. They fig"ht when they 

 find one. They eat the corn, but always leave the husk, 



75. Helix Cantiana, Kentish Snail (Lincolnshire Notes onl}'). 3 

 Anclilome Drift, 2/2/1900. Plentiful. Its watershed must be rich n\ 

 them in ]5laces. 



Cleatham, 28/3/1900. Rare by roadside considering the Lines. Lime- 

 stone. 



Bottesford, 5/1900. On Lovv'er Lias. M. Peacock. 

 Hibaldstow, 17/8/1900. On cornbrash. Very fi.ne indeed. 

 Scunthorpe, 20/8/1900. On the Ironstone Bed of Lower Lias ; very thin 

 and dark. Medium size. Fairly common. 



Horncastte, 8/10/1900. Max Peacock. Soil? 

 Boston, 10/10/1900. On silt. Max Peacock. 



Kii'ton Lindsey, 17/4/1901. In old quarry, Redbourne Road, not fine or 

 plentiful — with Helix itala. 



Ancholme, Cadney, at Thirty-Foot Drain outfall, bridge buttress, Oxford 

 Clay and Peat. Broken by Thrushes. It is more plentiful than Helix 

 neinoralis here ; but not so g-reatly liked. The same, 13/8/1901. The}- 

 were lying- with Helix liispida and Dreissenia polymorpha, all collected by 

 thrushes. 



' These sheets from my Reg-isters will give an idea how notes 

 accumulate under the hands of a worker. I use deal cases for 

 them, 12 inches long', 8 wide, and 3 deep, stained throughout, 

 but only varnished on the outside. These boxes keep the sheets 

 neatly together in the order of the left hand numbers ; while at 

 the same time the}' can be turned over like the leaves of a book 

 to find any given note, after the index of Bell, of Saunders, or 

 of Adams, has been consulted to give the right number. Should 

 a pag-e get damaged by mistake, or through accident, it can 



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