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Field Notes. 
of twenty Waxwings on November 23rd, seven on the 24th, 
five on the 25th, and nine on the 28th, all in the vicinity of 
Scarborough.— W. J. Clarke, Scarborough, November 23rd. 
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MARINE ZOOLOGY . 
Young Herrings and ‘Jellyfish’ at Cullercoats. — 
On 2nd September, 1921, there were young herrings, O group, 
in Cullercoats Bay, and on 21st November, large quantities 
of Tima bairdii (Medusoid)- were washed ashore at Cullercoats 
Bay. If any of your readers have note of the occurrence of 
the above we may be able to get some idea as to extent or 
rate of drift. Tima is exceptionally abundant this year, as 
I heard of large numbers of jellyfish up to the diameter of a 
penny being found on the sands at Whitley Bay on 3rd De- 
cember. — B. Storrow, Dove Marine Laboratory, Cullercoats, 
Northumberland, 14-12-21. 
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MAMMALS. 
Badgers near Scarborough . — While the hounds were 
pursuing a fox on October 8th, it took refuge in a large burrow 
in Raincliffe Wood. On being dug out, the burrow was found 
to contain not only the fox, but also a couple of badgers and 
a rabbit, all of which were killed. On the following day, a 
homeless badger was encountered wandering about near the 
same place, and also was dispatched. — W. J. Clarke. 
Fawn and White Rat. — On nth November, 1921, Mr 
Laisters F. Lort sent me a curiously-coloured Rat, which he 
had trapped in his garden at Menai Bridge, Anglesey. It 
was about half -grown, and the entire upper parts were of a 
pale fawn colour, the under parts and tail pure white. It 
was of the M . decumanus species. So far as is known it was 
perfectly wild, no similar animal having been seen or heard 
of in the vicinity. — H. E. Forrest. 
Remains of False Killer (Pseudorca crassidens) in 
Lincolnshire. — According to the press, while digging at a 
farm at Thorney, seven miles from Peterborough, the remains 
of two whale-like animals were discovered. Mr. C. Foster 
Cooper, of the University of Zoology, Cambridge, informs me 
that he visited the site, together with Dr. Garrood (in whose 
possession the bones are now), and it is evident that a pair of 
False Killer' Whales, probably a male and female, had been 
stranded at the time when this part of the country was an 
arm of the Wash. This species was originally described 
from a skull found in the fens near Stamford, though the 
species was subsequently found living in the North Sea. — T.S. 
Naturalist 
