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FIELD NOTES. 



BIRDS. 



A Leach's Fork=tailed Petrel in very fair condition 

 was shot at Barugh, near Barnsley, on October 17th, and is 

 now in my possession. I intend to present it to the Barnsley 

 Naturahsts' Museum. The local occurrence of this species 

 are all recorded in ' The Birds of Yorkshire,' by T. H. Nelson, 

 the nearest being as follows : — One on the Don at Sprotborough, 

 1837 ; one on Sutton Common (near Askern) ; occasionally 

 near Leeds ; one in Halifax street, i6th December, 1831. 

 In T. Lister's notes, besides the above, he gives one shot near 

 Halifax (Varley's notes, 1874), but, if I understand Mr. Nelson 

 rightly, this specimen was wrongly identified. — W. Barra- 

 CLOUGH, Barnsley, October 28th, 1908. 



Honey Buzzard near Carlisle. — A Honey Buzzard 

 was shot near Carlisle on the 23rd October. It has not been 

 recorded during the last thirty years for Cumberland. It 

 lias been lent to the Carlisle Museum. — L. E. Hope, Carlisle. 



Fork = tailed Petrel at Carlisle. — On November 17th, a 

 Fork-tailed Petrel was picked up at Stanwix, Carlisle. It was 

 in an exhausted state and died a few hours after capture. The 

 bird has been given to the Carlisle Museum and proved on 

 dissection to be an immature female. It was in fairly good 

 condition and not emaciated as might have been expected of a 

 storm driven bird. — L. E. Hope, Carlisle. 



Eared Grebe on the Solway. — An example of the Eared 

 Grebe was shot at Bowness on the Solway on December 3rd ; 

 a female in winter dress, but showing traces of nuptial dress 

 on the neck and cheeks. This southern species rarely occurs 

 on the Solway. — L. E. Hope, Carlisle. 



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 ENTOMOLOGY. 



The Death's Head Moth near Carlisle.~The Death's 

 Head Moth .4. atropos has been taken commonly here during 

 ■October. I have had four sent to the Museum as follows : — • 

 October 12th, 0, Carlisle ; October 13th, 0, Abbey Town, 

 Carlisle ; October 15th, 5, Shap (Westmorland) ; Newbiggin, 

 Carlisle, October 14th, ^. A female was also caught at New- 

 biggin, October 5th, and another female on October loth, at 

 ■Carlisle ; also a female, October loth, at Bowness-on-Solway. — 

 L. E. Hope, Carlisle. 



