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Field Notes. 



Philonthus margiiiatus. F. [ Silpha rugosa L. 

 \Sienus juno F. Histev unicolor L. 



„ buphthabnus Crav. Aphodius luridus F. 



Necrophoriis humator Goez. Chrysomela staphylea L, 



Silpha opaca L. Melasoma popidi L. 



* ,, thovacica L. Pvasocuris junci Brahm. 



The most interesting of these are Silpha thovacica, one 



specimen of which was taken by Mr. E. Sawyer, and Philhydrus 



coarctatiis, both additional records for the East Riding. 



Melasoma popiili was very abundant. T. S 



FIELD NOTES. 



BIRDS. 



Cream = coIoured Snipe at Horncastle. — In the middle 

 of January last, Mr. A. Hill, of Horncastle, shot, in a grass field, 

 within 200 yards of the Horncastle Market Place, a cream- 

 coloured Snipe, which was afterwards stuffed for Neville Lucas 

 Calcraft, Esq. , J.P. , of Gautby. — J. Conway Walter, Horncastle. 

 Trag-ic Death of a Linnet. — Birds frequently meet with 



an untimely end through be- 

 coming entangled in their nesting 

 materials. In the March number 

 of ' The Naturalist,' I recorded 

 the death of a Swift by strangu- 

 lation ; early this month a 

 friend of mine noticed a 

 Linnet flying about a patch of 

 gorse with a lump of wool 

 attached to its leg. A week 

 later he was searching the same 

 gorse when he came across the 

 same bird, but unfortunately 

 the wool had become entangled 

 with the twigs near the nest^ 

 and the bird was hung head 

 downwards quite dead. As in 

 the case of the Swift, the bird 

 in its struggles had turned 

 continually in one direction, 

 and the wool, as will be noticed 

 in the photograph, is very 

 tight and hard at the beginning 



Photo by} 



of the twist. - 



[R. Fortune, F.Z.S. 



-R. Fortune 



Naturalist- 



