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Slides of the Kestrel, Golden Plover, etc., were described 
by Mr. Jasper Atkinson, and Mr. H. B. Booth related his 
experiences of hunting the Golden Eagle, Ptarmigan and 
Crested Tit in Scotland, also illustrated with slides. 
A vote of thanks was unanimously accorded to the several 
lecturers and to Mr. Graham for the loan of the room. 

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An Osprey was noted in Cheshire in September. (Svitish Birds, 
December). 
In Knowledge for November, Dr. P. Q. Keegan writes on ‘ The Inner 
Life of Some Common Plants.’ 
Aphelocheivus «aestivalis is recorded for Nottinghamshire, (Ento- 
mologist’s Morthly Magazine, December). 
The Zoologist for October contains records of an Albino Water-Vole, 
an Albino Pheasant, Dunlin, and Little Owls, all in Nottinghamshire. 
In a note on “Some Coniopterygide in the North,’ in The Entomologist 
for December, Mr. J. W. H. Harrison describes Conwentzia pineticola, 
an addition to the British list. 
In The Entomologist’s Record for October, Mr. R. S. Bagnall records 
a specimen of Ptevodela livida Enderlein, a psocid new to the British fauna, 
from Ovingham-on-Tyne, Northumberland. 
Mr. A. W. R. Roberts reports on the Aphid for the Lancashire and 
Cheshire Fauna Committee, though nearly all his records are for West- 
morland. (Lancashive and Cheshire Naturalist for November). 
In The Zoologist for November, Mr. Alfred Bell gives a valuable account 
of the Pleistocene and later Bird Fauna of Great Britain and Ireland. 
He refers to the remains found in caves, peat beds, etc., including York- 
shire. 
With the aid of several figures, Mr. R.S. Bagnall gives ‘A Brief Review 
of the British Coniopterygidae (Neuroptera) with tables of the European 
Genera and Species,’ in The Entomologist’s Recorvd for November. Several 
northern county species are enumerated. 
From a note in The Lancashive and Cheshive Naturalist for October 
we gather that a correspondent has recently seen a large bird with power- 
ful flight and he thinks it might be a Great Bustard. He is also ‘assured 
that the Great Bustard is of very rare occurrence in Lancashire.’ His 
informant is correct. His name has three o’s in it, and they are from three 
different founts. The same journal contains a record of Blepharvidea 
vulgaris in the Rochdale district, a dipteron parasitic of Abraxas grossu- 
laviata. 
In The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine for November, Mr. G. C. 
Champion points out that a species to which he had given the name 
Xylophilus tmmaculatus should be altered to X, tmmaculipennis, ‘ Lea 
having already used the same name (under Syzeton, a synonym of Xylo- 
philus) for an Australian insect.’ On the previous page the same writer 
tells us that ‘ Ochthebius powevt Rye, treated as a variety of O. dentifer 
Rey, in our latest British catalogue, seems to me to be inseparable from 
O. metallescens.’ 
The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine for November contains records 
of Patrobus septentvionts, Lesteva luctuosa and Cayvabus arvensis in York- 
shire ; Bothynotus pilosus near Carlisle, and Syrphus gittatus in Cheshire. 
In the December number Mr, G. T, Porritt points out that the specimens 
ot Stenobothrus bicolor, which occur among the rubbish near the houses 
at St. Anne’s-on-Sea, are much darker than the ordinary form, in some 
cases being nearly black. Mr. F. N. Pierce and the Rev. J. W. Metcalfe 
describe some additions to the British Tortricina, some of which are from 
Teesdale, Hartlepool, Darlington, Cheshire, etc, 
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