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ORIGINAL NOTES 
A MS. Essex Florula. —There are two slight emendations to 
be made in my account of the MS. “ Flora of Dedham," which was printed 
in the Essex Naturalist, vol. xix., pp. 303-307. The name of the finder, 
which appears as the Rev. E. Foord-Kelsey should have been the 
Rev. E. Foord-Kelcey ; and, secondly, the suggestion (p. 306) of the 
explanation of the pencilled alteration of “ Mr. Hurlock’s " to " the 
Lecturer's ” is almost certainly wrong. There is, I find, an en- 
dowed Lectureship at Dedham, with an official residence, so that the altera¬ 
tion—probably Coleman’s—is merely from the name of the occupant of 
the post at the time to a more general reference.—G. S. Boulger. 
Paludestrina Jenkinsi at Grays Thurrock.—In the enormous 
chalk-pit, belonging to the Grays Chalk Quarries Company Ltd., recently 
visited by the Club (18 June 1921), Mr. Charles Nicholsop and I found this 
small mollusc, in great abundance, in an aqueduct which conveys the 
water of a spring coming direct from the base of the perpendicular cliff- 
like side of the pit, near its western side, through an artificial cutting, to 
the town of Grays. At the head of this aqueduct, within a few yards of 
its source, we found large numbers of the mollusc, practically all immature, 
crawling over the weeds and on the lumps of chalk lying in the bottom 
of the water-way 
I have submitted the specimens to Mr. G. C. Robson, of the British 
Museum (N.H.), who definitely identifies them as above, and who points 
out that they are thickly coated with a deposit of some kind. This is 
probably carbonate of lime, with which the water they live in is, doubt¬ 
less, highly impregnated, as it comes straight out of the solid chalk. 
Paludestrina jenkinsi is not, I believe, a new record for Grays, where 
it inhabits (as is its usual wont) the brackish marsh ditches on the flats beside 
the Thames. The particular habitat in which we found the species in 
such abundance is, however, unusual.— Miller Christy, F.L.S. 
Waxwing at Rochford.— A Waxwing ( Bombycilla garrulus) was 
killed by a catapult at Rochford on 19th December 1921. This beautiful 
winter-visitant to our shores has been unusually frequent this year, being 
reported from many localities.— Percy Thompson. 
The “ Levantine ’’ Shearwater.- —A specimen in the Club’s Museum 
at Strafford, which was shot in September 1912, off the Yorkshire coast, 
has been recently examined by Mr. H. F. Witherby and determined by him 
as being an example of the newly-recognized West Mediterranean form of 
the “ Levantine ’’ Shearwater ( Puffinus puffmus mauretanicus of Dr. P. 
R. Lowe), which is as yet only known from the coasts of S.E. Spain, 
Algeria, and the British Isles ; the breeding-place is still unknown, (cf. 
British Birds , xv., Dec. 1921, p. 151.)— Percy Thompson. 
Pied Blackbird at Romford. —A very handsome Pied Black¬ 
bird was brought in to me a few days ago from Raphael’s Park, Romford. 
Head almost entirely white, transverse line of black on crown, nape 
and breast uniformly speckled with black. Mantle black-edged with white, 
flight feathers and rectrices black. Greater wing coverts on right wing 
white, forming a broad band. Under tail coverts white, a few white 
feathers on rump. The bird had been noticed for some time in the Park. 
