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be wondering why they are so scarce this season, both as ' birds 

 of passage ' and as winter visitors. These birds (even jf vm- 

 ■observed), must have passed somewhere in the north of Eng- 

 land or Ireland, and to these must be added many that usually 

 make use of this neighbourhood during the greater part of the 

 colder season. I have not heard of any great numbers having 

 been reported, not even on the coasts. I would like to suggest 

 that each reader of ' The Naturalist,' who has taken notes of 

 the movements of Redwings during the present season, should 

 send in a short report to the Editors. These could be tabulated, 

 and we might obtain some sidelight on the complicated question 

 ■of bird migration, and more particularly respecting a bird whose 

 movements are perhaps more easily traced in our island, than 

 are those of any other species. 



Fieldfares are also in smaller numbers here than usual, 

 but the difference is not so marked as in the case of the Red- 

 wings. 



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EUPHRASIAS OF NORTH=EAST YORKSHIRE. 



J. G. BAKER, F.R.S., 



During my visit to North-East Yorkshire last summer, I 

 ■collected several Euphrasias, which have been kindly examined 

 for me by Messrs. Bruce, Jackson and Pugsley, and determined 

 as follows : — 



E. borealis Towns. Side of the road between Whitby and 

 Scarborough, near Hayburn Wyke. 



E. stricta Host. East Row woods, near Sandsend and an 

 allied form, by the side of the Whitby and Scarborough road, 

 near Hayburn W^^ke. 



Form between ciirta Fries and gracilis Fries. Side of the 

 lower road between Castleton and Westerdale. 



Mr. F. H. Day records Ara:ocerus fasciciilatiis De Geer, as a British 

 insect, in ' The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine ' for December. The 

 insect occurred in some numbers in a confectioner's shop window in 

 Carlisle. 



No. 69 of ' The Mineralogical Magazine ' has recently appeared, 

 and contains an obituary notice of Dr. H. C. Sorb}-, by Prof. J. \V. 

 J add. Sorby's researches and methods undoubtedly made mineral- 

 ogical science what it is to-day. Mr. A. B. Dick contributes some notes 

 on Kaolinite, and records examples of this mineral from Anglesey, from 

 the Hambleton Quarry, near Bolton Abbey ; in the sandstone of a coal- 

 mine near Newcastle-on-Tyne ; and ' in the millstone grit of a quarry at 

 Congleton, Cheshire.' 



1909 March i. 



