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A dish containing some 50 hazel nuts and two walnuts was left overnight
on my dining-room table. In the morning all had vanished. The table
is circular, supported on a large central pedestal. The show was given
away by the two walnuts, which were found jammed against a hole
in the wainscot in my smoking room 15 yards away down a passage. A
break-back trap revealed the culprit as a. very fine yellow-necked or de
wintoni Mouse (Mus sylvaticus wintoni Barrett Hamilton). He had
reached the table by climbing the sloping leg of a folding, webbing topped,
tray carrier standing 2 ft. away from the table, on to which he must have
jumped. He then presumably rolled the nuts off the table and down the
passage and across the next room to his hole. How many were engaged
on this considerable labour I do not know, as I forbore to re-set the trap
and have since heard another at work on the nuts under my floor. This
mouse is not uncommon here and is fond of entering buildings in winter
where nuts or apples are stored.
G. Dent (Parndon).
Fungus on Sandbags.—A fungus seen growing on sandbags in an
enclosed yard of the Municipal College, West Ham, has been identified as
the discomycete, Peziza (Aleuria) vesiculosa.
Ed., May, 1940.
Impatiens Glandulifera Royle at Leyton.—I found this plant
growing in some quantity along the bank of a "cut" on Leyton Marsh
in August, 1940: the specimens were in good condition and flowering
freely.
W. D. Graddon.