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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 Nicholson 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 Stratford, 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 puffinus 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-