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uncommon thing for specimens of this species to be captured in 

 the barns and out-houses, at Milburn, for example : but the species 

 is every year becoming rarer, and will doubtless soon be as entirely 

 supplanted by its foreign congener there as it has been elsewhere. 



J. G. G. 



THE LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER (PICVS 

 MINOR,) IN CUMBERLAND. 



In 1880 a pair of these generally-rare birds bred, as I was informed 

 by Mr. Raine, in a large tree situated in the Park at Edenhall. 



J. G. G. 



EPIPACTIS PALVSTRIS IN CUMBERLAND. 



In 1880 I found Epipactis palustris, the rare Marsh Epipactis, 

 growing in small numbers in a bog near Penrith. Last year a 

 member of the Penrith Scientific Society, to whom the locality was 

 mentioned, succeeded in discovering other specimens of the species 

 at the same locality. 



J. G. G. 



PYRRHOTITE. 



Pyrrhotite, or Magnetic Pyrites ( Fey Ss ) occurs in a quartz- 

 vein traversing the Carboniferous rocks at Smittergill Head, in 

 the Alston District. It is found in the form of blade-like masses, 

 somewhat irregular in their mode of occurrence, which fill up the 

 interspaces in the quartz-rider of the fault-breccia in such a manner 

 as to suggest that they represent broken fragments of masses that 

 were once more regular in form, rather than minerals crystallized 

 as they are now found. The mineral has a granular fracture, a 



