A YORKSHIRE NATURALIST 4* 



"mology/'on plate 6, a figure and description of our 

 insect. It proved to be Nebria Livida. The writer 

 stated that an extremely small number I think three 

 or four isolated examples had been collected on the 

 Lincolnshire coast. We wholly failed to recollect 

 where we had obtained our single specimen. Long 

 afterwards, we were working amongst the rocks of 

 Cornbrash, which, fallen from a higher part of the 

 precipitous cliff, were then strewn in considerable 

 numbers over the sandy shore of the south-eastern 

 corner of the north bay of Scarborough. Turning 

 over one of these blocks, my eye quickly detected a 

 " Nebria " running out of the depressed sand upon 

 which the stone had rested. Securing my prize, I 

 quickly joined my father, and showed him my cap- 

 tured treasure. We then remembered that this 

 was the place where we had obtained our original 

 specimen. It was long before other localities were 

 discovered from which the insect could be obtained 

 in any numbers ; and since it re-appeared at ours 

 every summer, until the bridge and embankment 

 ruined the spot, we were able to supply the needs 

 of our entomological friends. 



On another occasion we were out in a boat with 

 a friend to obtain specimens of "Terns" or sea 

 swallows, that were flying in the bay. Whilst 

 thus occupied, we noticed two or three Skua gulls 

 amongst the Terns. Skua gulls are birds that do 

 not catch their own fish, but mingle with others that 

 are doing so ; and, when one of the latter has been 



