Field Notes. 
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by Joseph Whitaker, 1892, among the Yorkshire herds is the 
one at Red House, Nunmonkton, formerly owned by the 
Slingsby family. It then consisted of about 70 head, in- 
habiting a park of about 40 acres, surrounded by an oak 
paling fence. The average weight for bucks was 112 lbs., and 
for does 84 lbs. Upon the dispersal of the Slingsby estates, 
the deer were sold to a Harrogate gentlemen, who bought them 
for sporting purposes, i.e., to shoot them ' on the spot/ They 
were purchased in July, 1916 ; at this time the herd consisted of 
about 50 head, and 14 were shot, when the remainder broke 
away through the fences and were lost in the surrounding 
country, being probably shot by farmers upon their lands. The 
farmers kept the matter very quiet as no further knowledge 
of them came to hand. The weights of the four largest of the 
deer shot, with skin and horns, but gutted, were 113 lbs., 
94 lbs., 91 lbs. and 89 lbs. The same publication gives the 
Bolton Abbey herd of Red Deer at this date as numbering 
from 40 to 60 head. These deer were kept more in a state of 
nature than any others in Yorkshire. It is therefore with 
infinite regret that one has to record the destruction of this 
ancient herd, in 1921. The silent revolution which is now 
taking place in England is destroying natural features to a 
deplorable degree. One misses woods and coppices on every 
side. Old estates are changing hands, and old conditions 
favourable to the Naturalist are being swept rapidly away. 
As an instance of this regrettable state of things is the Kirby 
Hall estate, lately owned by Lord Knaresborob It was 
bought by an Agricultural company, which immediately 
felled the whole of the fine timber on the estate, making a 
beauty spot into an area of desolation, and now the old hall 
is being pulled down. — R. Fortune. 
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MOLLUSCA. 
Succinea oblonga in Nidderdale. — A Pleistocene deposit 
has been found in Yorkshire, in which that rare and decadent 
species Succinea oblonga is quite plentiful. The batch of 
shells handed to me were obtained by Prof. Kendall and Mr. 
Fisher, of Leeds, in March, 1921, from a Pleistocene marly-soil 
cast up by moles in a low lying tract of land at Scriven, near 
Knaresborob Most of the specimens consisted of Succinea 
oblonga, hitherto only known in Yorkshire from a single shell 
found near York by Mr. Miller-Christy. They are of the form 
known as var. elongata Braun., and were associated with a few 
Succinea elegans, Vallonia pulchella and excentrica, Hyalinia 
crystallina , Hygromia hispida, Pupa muscorum, Vertigo pyg- 
maea, Zua lubrica, etc. — Jno. W. Taylor, October 20th, 1922. 
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