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MAMMALS. 
White = beaked Dolphin at Redcar. — On Thursday, nth 
June, a White-beaked Dolphin ( Delphinus albriostris) was 
noticed near West Scar by three fishermen, who succeeded in 
driving it ashore, and secured it bv means of a ' clove-hitch ’ 
passed round its tail. It measured 7 feet 7 inches in length, 
and has been purchased by the Middlesbrough Museum. — 
Thos. H. Nelson, Redcar. 
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MOSSES. 
Hypnum fluitans, group Amphibium var. Robertsiae 
Ren. & Dixon, — I found this species on Shacklesborough Moss 
during the meeting of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union to 
Middleton-in-Teesdale in May 1910. This variety was des- 
cribed as new in the ‘ Journal of Botany,’ by Renauld and Dixon 
in August, 1901, and the only habitat was in Merioneth, where 
it was found in September 1898. Quite lately I examined 
my gathering, and being struck with the beautiful glossy 
appearance and the variegated colours, as well as the structure, 
I sent it to Mr. H. N. Dixon under the name var. Robertsiae 
and he confirmed my identification. The species is known 
only in the two habitats above mentioned. 
Eurhynchium Swartzii. — When boating on the River 
Ouse on 15th August, 1908, I found this moss on an old stump 
in a spot often submerged by the river, and only to be approach- 
ed by boat. Its very wide leaf cells were different from those 
■of E. Swartzii. After re-examining the moss a short time ago, 
I sent a specimen to Mr. H. N. Dixon who replied, ‘ I am in- 
clined to see in your moss an attempt on the part of a 
Eurhynchium to see how much like an Amblystegium it can 
make itself by a hygro-phytic environment.’ In other words 
we have here one genus of mosses approaching the form of 
another genus.- — William Ingham, York, 6th June, 1914. 
As a supplement to La Feuille des Jeunes Naluralistes for June, is 
an admirable series of plates illustrating ‘ I.es Mollusques de la Baie de 
Saint-Malo.’ 
In The Lancashire Naturalist for May, Mr. J. W. Ellis records Puccinia 
sonchi — a plant parasite of the Sow Thistle, in Cheshire, for the first 
time in the British Isles. 
In the Entomologist’ s Monthly Magazine for June, Mr. E. A. Newberv 
has the following: — ‘ Pkilhydrus halophilus Bedel: Supplementary and 
Corrective Note.’ He writes : ‘ Since bringing forward the above species 
in the April number, I have seen specimens from Deal. I find that the 
character given in my table to separate P. halophilus Bedel, from P. 
bicolor Fab., depending on the form of the transverse furrow on the head, 
is of no value, since it is not constant, the furrow being often as angular 
as in bicolor. Nor is the character of the alutation at the base of the 
head of the absolute value I ascribed to it, as it is present in bicolor behind 
the eyes when the head is protuded, but is much less extensive than in 
halophilus.’ 
1914 July 1. 
