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16. Oak in leaf. Garden warbler heard. 



17. Laburnum tree and forget-me-not in flower. (Chickweed 

 winter green, in flower abundantly in high wood. — P. /.) 



18. (Goklcrest's nest suspended from Norway spruce, containing 

 eight eggs.— 7P. /.) 



20. Wood warbler heard. Thorn in flower. 



21. While passing a wood this evening about ten, 1 heard the 

 throstle and other birds in song, (Bog bean in flower. — P. I.) 



22. The limestone country, east of Pontefract, is rich in natural 



productions. Plants, birds, shells and insects are abundant. The 



Went, a small river, winds eastward among fertile pastures and 



magnesiau limestone crags. Stapleton Park and the woods 



bordering the river are accessible to visitors by procuring a permit 



from the steward. Pleasure parties occasionally avail themselves 



of this privilege ; but the quiet, rural beauties of Went Vale 



deserve to be much better known. The lapidary snail is found on 



the rocks and walls ; a white variety of the oblong limpet occurs 



on the under side of the leaves of the yellow water lily, which 



grows in the river. 



(To be continued.) 



Ornitbological Notes from Futtehgorh^ N.W.P. India. — Almost all our 

 cold- weather visitants have left ; only a few wagtails and Totani remain. 

 I went out the other day, and got very fine specimens of Tringa minuta 

 and T. Temminckii : the former fly in flocks over the Ganges, just 

 skimming the surface of the water ; they are awfully fat and in very pretty 

 feather, some of them ; now that their breeding season is approaching, 

 assume ruddy brown feathers. I procured also Totanus fuscus (one of 

 them, a male, nearly ink-black beneath — full breeding plumage), T. glottis, 

 T. stagnatilis, T. ochropus and T. glareola. The redshank and common 

 sandpiper seem to leave this country earlier than their congeners. This 

 morning I got a good series of the httle wren {Burnesia gracilis), our 

 smallest Indian bird, I beheve : they are very local in tlieir habits, and 

 I have never met them anywhere but in the tamarisk scrub jungle 

 (commonly called " Shao ") ; from the dissections made I have no doubt 

 they breed here : I saw a pair feeding four young ones. The Indian 

 neophron (P. ginginianus) are now building: I have marked down five or 

 six nests, and hope to procure several pairs of eggs before the season is 

 over: I believe P. ginginianus generally lays two eggs, but I have 

 frequently found birds incubating a single one ; the female begins to sit 

 immediately the first egg is laid, and from the little experience I have 

 had I beheve that the second is laid after an interval of several days. 

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