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80. Found in gizzard of young missel thrushes, caterpillars, 

 flies, elytra of beetles and numbers of minute, round, white bodies, 

 resembling eggs of insects. 



31. (The yew-gall gnat {Cecidomyia Taxi), hatching abundantly 

 from the leafy tufts of the yew tree. Lesser whitethroat's nest 

 found, containing five eggs. — P. I.) 



June. 



2. (Spotted flycatcher's nest in trellis at the Lodge, containing 

 five eggs. — P. /.) 



3. Plants flowering rapidly. Spindle, guelder rose, wild hop, 

 foxglove, eyebright, clustered bell-flower, great burnet, earth-nut, 

 sainfoin, milkwort, field madder, red clover and cock's foot grass 

 in flower. Starlings flocking. 



6. During a walk with J: W. on the limestone district, in quest 

 of anything curious, I found the unfrequent shell, Planorbis 

 contortus, in a small pond near Castleford, and in a shallow cattle- 

 pond near Sherburn I discovered the rare bivalve-shell, the capped 

 cyclas. In this pond were also Planorbis nautileus and Planorbis 

 albus. Near Sherburn churchyard we extracted from a crevice in 

 the bark of a rotten beech tree a specimen of Sinodendron 

 cylindricus. Whilst walking round a large pond we observed 

 several dark-coloured moths alighting upon and ascending from the 

 surface of the water. I was not aware that moths could alight and 

 rest on water without injury. On one occasion a stickleback 

 pursued one of the moths as it swam, or rather drifted, on the 

 rippling surface, but the insect escaped by rising. The fact that 

 insects migrate across the channel from the Continent to this 

 country is well known to entomologists. 



8. (Deadly nightshade in flower. — A. F. W.) 



9. (First swarm of hive bees. — P. I.) 



11. Common mallow, small bind-weed and hedge mustard in 

 flower. 



12. Some plants, such as cow parsnep, chervil, buttercups, oxeye 

 daisy, burnet and autumn saffron, are very injurious in meadows 

 and pastures. The buttercups are acrid, anfl cattle generally leave 

 the stalks with grass around them. Grass fields in which any of 

 these plants have spread should be ploughed up, and others sown 

 down with carefully-selected seeds. This plan would rest the land 

 all round, and secure courses of (say) ten or twelve years of grass 



