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NOTES BY MR. J. ARKLE. 

FLOWERS IN BLoo, SPRING, 1899.—Crocus, snowdrop, primrose—in a 
Newton garden, February 14th. Almond, pear—March 2th (both 18 days 
late), Sallow—March 3oth (10 days late), Lilac—May ! 3th (4 days late). 
Hawthorn, horse-chestnut, laburnum, apple, wild hyacinth—May 2oth (11 to 
13 days late). Warm, sunny weather began with May 29th. June 6th the 
thermometer was “among the eighties,” so that by July 19th the limes were 
in full blossom, or a week earlier than in 1898. 
Brrps.—Corncrake heard, May 2nd; cuckoo, May 4th (11 days late). 
at were seen May 7th (5 days late—they stayed with us until August 
22nd). > 
Note.—The above comparisons all refer to 1898, and are made on the 
localities for that year. 
InsEcts.—Epinephele tithonus.—This butterfly was exterminated, some 
years ago, in the only locality where I knew it to occur—and it was abundant 
—through the cleaning, in July, of a hedge-bank, and consequent disappear- 
ance of the grass upon which the insect lays its eggs. Mr. Thompson, of 
24, South View, Sealand Road, found the butterfly again in the Saughall and 
Shotwick neighbourhoods, and in such numbers, and so well distributed, that 
there is no further fear of its extinction. 
Cdematophorus lithodactylus.—Woodbank Marsh, August. This is a 
new plume-moth added to the district list. Specimens have been placed in 
the Grosvenor Museum. 
I have to report five additional species, &c., to the captures at the 
electric lamps :— 
Smerinthus tilie, Jane, by Mr. Quinton. 
The following four were taken by myself :— 
Xylophasia scolopacina, August, 
Tortrix podana, the black form, July. 
Scoparia augustea, August. 
Catoptria scopoliana, August. 



NATURAL HISTORY NOTES BY MR. THOS. RUDDY, 
Pale, 1899. 

Crossbill.—Three here on the 24th of January. Did not see any after 
that date. 
White-tailed Eagle.—A good specimen was caught exhausted on the hill 
near Llangower, Bala, The upper mandible was by some accident knocked 
away (not by the man who captured it), and this may account for the bird 
being weak, and easily captured by a farmer. I suppose it could not procure 
proper food for the want of its upper mandible. It was in good condition ; 
weighed 12 lbs., and measured 7 feet 6 inches from tip to tip of wings. The 
specimen is now preserved in the collection of Mr. Williams, Chemist, at 
Bala. The only other obtained in this district is in the Palé Collection. It 
was shot in 1863. 
Peregrine Falcon.—A pair nested on the mountain of Aran Mawddwy, 
Bala, in May. 
Marsh Harrier,-—One was seen on the Berwyn Mountains two or three 
times in October. 
Great Spotted Woodpecker.—Seen at Llandrillo, near Corwen, on the 
16th of October, 
