6j8 MR. W. G. CLARKE ON A WEEK IN BRECKLAND. 
Weather conditions were also partially responsible for 
the comparative absence of animal and bird life. With the 
exception of Rabbits and Hares, the only wild animals seen 
were Water Voles, a Squirrel, and a solitary Weasel. With 
birds there was little more diversity. In addition to the 
ordinary hedgerow species, a number of Stockdoves were 
disturbed from their homes in rabbit burrows ; and Stone 
Curlews not infrequently flew out of patches of bracken, 
though their shrill call was much less rarely heard than is 
usual at this time of the year. The harsh note, or wavering 
flight of the Green Woodpecker were the most common sign 
of bird-life on the heaths or among the heathland plantations ; 
small parties of Goldfinches and Yellow Wagtails were frequent 
on some heaths ; and in the pine woods Long-tailed Titmice 
and Golden-crested Wrens frequently gave evidence of their 
presence. On September 6th there were signs of a migratory 
movement. Thousands of Lapwings were travelling in big 
flocks from east to west, and far more numerous companies 
of Starlings from north-west to south-east. Even the bird-life 
of the meres was of much less interest than usual. There was 
a fair number of Coots on all the heathland meres ; a pair of 
Moorhens on the Punch Bowl ; a few Gadwall on Ringmere, 
Langmere and Fowlmere, and fifteen Tufted Duck on 
Langmere. 
With regard to Mollusca, a few minutes’ search revealed 
Planorbis alba and Limncea stagnalis in Ringmere and Lang- 
mere ; and Helicella virgata and Helix caperata on Thetford 
and Santon Warrens. The only discovery of interest, was, how- 
ever, that made by Mr. A. Mayfield, M.C.S., who accompanied 
me on two days. On a portion of Santon Warren in the 
parish of Thetford St. Peter, under big fragments of chalk 
excavated from the flint-pits near St. Helen’s Well he found 
four specimens of the tiny Jaminia muscorum var. bigranata, 
and two approximating to the tridentate form. The only 
place in England in which the last-named variety had pre- 
viously been found was on Lingheath, Brandon, where it 
was first discovered in July, 1904, by Dr. G. W. Chaster, and 
its occurrence in Norfolk, on the northern bank of the Little 
