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were fussing about, preparing to roost in the laurels there.— 
R.F. 
Remains of Whooper Swan, etc., in the Peat of 
Lincolnshire . — Recently, during excavations in Brotherton’s 
Brickyard, at Barrow-on-Humber, North Lincolnshire, a peat 
deposit was found at a depth of twelve feet beneath the surface, 
the material above being the familiar old Humber warp used 
for brick-making. In this peat occurred a number ot bones ; 
remains of three curious dark earthenware vases, hand -made, 
of the familiar Romano-British type; the skull of a small 
horse, and the frontal portions of two human skulls, together 
with the bone of a large bird. This last I submitted to Mr. 
E. T. Newton, F.R.S., who informs me that the bone represents 
the sacrum and part of pelvis of the Whooper Swan ( Cygnus 
musicus ) and not the common swan, although the two are 
much alike ; still there are differences to enable this species 
to be recognised. I cannot find that this species has been 
recorded for the peat of either Lincolnshire or Yorkshire, 
although, as shown in a note on another page, pieces of egg- 
shell attributed to swan have occurred in the peat at Skipsea. 
In a chapter on the Fauna of the Peat in Miller and Skertchley ’s 
‘ Fenland, Past and Present ’ (1878, p. 340), the Swan 
( Cygnus musicus) and Tame Swan (C . olor) are both given 
among the ‘fossils hitherto obtained from the peat/ compiled 
by Mr. A. Bell, who informs me that the list refers to the 
peat of the Cambridgeshire fens. Woodward and Sherborn’s 
‘ British Fossil Vertebrata/ 1890, and Supplement 1891, 
include no Lincolnshire nor Yorkshire records of Swan. 
Oddly enough the two portions of human skull referred to 
above, both of which appear to be females, have the medial 
frontal suture, which divides the ordinary frontal bone into 
two. This is not at all a common feature in human skulls, 
and it is odd that it occurs in the two individuals represented 
here. There was also a human femur and a few rib bones.— 
T. Sheppard. 
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INSECTS . 
Yorkshire Hemiptera-Heteroptera. — To Dr. Fordham’s 
list (Naturalist, 1921, pp. 333-336, 413 -417), may be added — 
Asopus punctatus Linn. (Skipwith) ; Rhyparochromus chir- 
agra Fab. (Flixton Sand-pit) ; Orthostir a parvula Fall. 
(Lartington) . Microphysa pselaphiformis Curt., included on 
an extremely old record, has occured to me at Kirby-in- 
Cleveland.— Geo. B. Walsh, Scarborough. 
Developed form of Nabis limbatus Dahlb. in York- 
shire.- — Among a number of Hemiptera which I collected 
in the Wharncliffe Woods, near Sheffield, in July, 1921, was a 
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