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Field Notes. 
for April, 1921, page 121) copied from an old manuscript, 
and described as representing ‘ Marking the beak and feet of 
a Swan ’ in the fourteenth century. This illustration is a 
copy of a woodcut in the illustrated edition of J. R. Green’s 
* Short History of the English People ’ (Macmillan, 1893), 
Vol. II., p. 481, where the legend reads ‘Swan Hopping, a.d. 
1:338-1344. MS. Bodl. Mis.c. 264.’ The Naturalist justly 
remarked that the method of bird-marking depicted seemed 
to be a very drastic one, but it appears to have escaped notice 
that there is an alternative explanation. In the list of * Cor- 
rections and Additions ’ (unpaged), issued with the fourth 
volume ^of Green’s ‘ History,’ we find, with reference to this 
illustration, 4 for 44 Swan -hopping ” read 44 Shoeing a Swan ; 
a mediaeval jest,” ’ There is no need to be either an archae- 
ologist or an ornithologist to believe that this second inter- 
pretation is the correct one. It is only necessary to compare 
the figure with the one immediately preceding it on the same 
page of the 4 History,’ which represents 4 Shoeing Horse”’ and 
is taken from the same MS., to be convinced that the artist 
intended his second picture to be a caricature of the first. — 
W. T. Calman. 
Galling of Couch Grass in Yorkshire. — In The 
Naturalist, p. 78, is a reference to galling of Couch Grass in 
Yorkshire by the Hymenopteron, Isosoma graminicola Gir. 
said to be a 4 new to Britain.’ Cecidia, associated with the 
same parasite, have been previously recorded from Cheshire 
{Lancs, and Ches. Nat,. 1919, p. 137). I omitted to include 
this in my recent contribution on Cheshire Zoocecidia in that 
journal, though reference is made to the somewhat similar 
cecidia probably due to the same insect on the allied host 
Agropyron junceum Beauv. — A. A. D allman. 
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Lancashire and Cheshire Entomology. — At a recent 
meeting of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society, 
Mr. W. Mansbridge read his report, as Recorder of Lepidoptera' 
for the years 1920 and 1921. He mentioned that besides 
many interesting records, five species had been added to the 
Lancashire and Cheshire list in 1920, and five in 1921. These 
included one species new to Britain, viz., Blastobasis lignea 
Wlsm. , and its variety adustella Wlsm. Mr. H. B. Prince 
exhibited a box of insects which he had bred from a number of 
larvae caught in paper traps kt Hightown. They included 
N. iriangulum, N . ditrapezium, A. fuliginosa, L. lithargyrea, 
T. gothica, T. baja and T. comes. This is the first record of 
ditrapezium in Lancashire. — Charles P. Rimmer, Hon. Sec. 
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