(Ampelis Garrulus) and the Crossbill (Loxia Curvirostra) birds 

 that have no regular migration but which visit us in some 

 seasons, which are erratic wanderers in fact, from the same 

 regions in which the Buzzard birds find their chief breeding 

 haunts appeared in unusual numbers during the same season. 

 Their arrivals continued after the stream of Buzzards had 

 apparently dried up, and in the case of the Waxwing and 

 Crossbill lasted till the end of January, 1904. 



What the causes were which brought about these movements 

 we can never know for certain but apparently what affected the 

 buzzards affected the other birds mentioned also. 



EXCURSION TO REDCAR ROCKS. 

 By Hexry Simpson. 



An extra meeting was arranged on Saturday, Sept- 

 ember 12, 1903, when the members of the Club to the number 

 of upwards of twelve spent a very enjoyable and instructive 

 three hours on Redcar Rocks. Undoubtedly more would 

 have been present, but it was necessary on account of the 

 tide to fix the visit for the morning. It is at no time, either on 

 Saturday or any other day, possible to profitably arrange an excur- 

 sion to these rocks for an afterno/on, because when the tide is low 

 during the afternoon it is always neap, and the rocks are never 

 bare enough to allow of the study of marine botany, &c. Thus 

 the seaside naturalist at Redcar must turn his attention to other 

 fields of observation on the Saturday afternoons. In order to 

 be, to some extent, independent of the tide the party requisitioned 

 two boats, and visited first Saltscar, on which they spent the 

 greater part of the time, and then Westscar. On the Saltscar 

 rocks there was a general search for the sea anemones (actinia), 

 for which these rocks are well-known. A considerable number 

 of fine specimens were observed, but of two varieties only — the 

 Tealia crassicornis, or Dahlia Wartlet, and the Sagartia troglo- 

 dytes (cave-dwelling). The members looked in vain for the 

 beautiful Beadlet (actinia mesembryanthemum) which is so 

 plentiful to the east of fc-altburn. Crabs in considerable 

 numbers were captured and examined, and some large specimens 

 of the edible crab (Cancer pagurus) were appropriated for 



