XXXI 1 ANNUAL KKPORT. 



Park, including ^o.ci/tclus fKlripea {the only other British locality 

 forwhich is Needwood Forest), ^Leptum J'nmida, Sbud^FIiUeopoya 

 rorticiilis : ^Mi/niifcoxenns vapornriurnm (very rare), found near 

 Birminghana ; *('ri/iitoc('jiIiah(s cori/li and *C. puncti(irr (both 

 rare) ; *Hi/U'Cietus dermcstuidcs (rare), found at Cannock Chase ; 

 *I)tj!i<hra I-Io»iher!/ii, a spider of the Senoculiua group, found near 

 Knowle ; and some fire-flies, Lampi/ris splendidula, from Switzer- 

 land, on behalf of Mr. C. Pumphrey. 



Mr. T. Bolton, a parasitic growth on Closterium, believed 

 to be a species of Pythium ; a piece of sea- weed (Ceratium), on 

 which were a great number of organisms, including Polyzoa, 

 Mollusca, etc. ; f-^ulis Landshuniii, from Bangor ; Lncernaria 

 auricula, from Swanage ; BulhocJi/rtc sftif/fra ; *F/oscularia reijalis 

 (Hudson), new to science ; and */•'. (onhujua, both discovered by 

 him near Birmingham ; *F. coronetta, since found near Dundee. 

 Mr. E. W. Chase, Fain) (rsalon, the Merlin, ? young; ('inclus 

 aqiMticus, the Dipper, young ; Tctrao nnxiallns, the Capercailzie, 

 $ , $ and Ggg ; Tetrao tt'tric, the Black Grouse, egg ; Tetriv 

 scoticus, the Red Grouse, egg ; t'liaradrius jihtvialis, the Golden 

 Plover, $ young and egg ; .Filial ids hiaticula, the Ringed 

 Plover, S and e^g ; HtBtnatopus ostralri/iis, the Oystej- Catcher, 

 ^ young and egg ; Numenius anjuata. the Curlew, 3 young 

 and egg ; Tmuioides hi/polcucus, the common Sandpiper, J ; 

 Vanellus rristatus, the Lapwing, young and egg ; Ampelisciarrulus, 

 the Waxwing, ? , killed at Rednall, near Bromsgrove ; four 

 specimens of a rare migrant, Plectrophanea lapponica, taken near 

 Brighton ; IJali'tetm alhirilla, the White-tailed Eagle, shot at 

 Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, the wings of which had a spread of 

 seven feet ; Larus minutus, the Little Gull, $ , shot at Lancing, 

 Sussex, and Phalaropus fulirai-ius, the Grey Phalarope, ? , at 

 Shoreham, Sussex, both in November, 1881 ; pied varieties of 

 Kmheriza miliaria, the common Bunting, Linota eannahina, the 

 Linnet, Turdus musicua, the Thrush, all from Cambridgeshire ; 

 Ruticilla tithys, the Black Redstart, from near Brighton, and 

 IL plurnicina, the common Redstart, from this neighbourhood ; a 

 double nest of Frinijilla nrlehs, the Chatiinch, from Ely, no doubt 



