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NEWS FROM. ‘THE MAGAZINES. 
An immature male rough-legged Buzzard was shot at Seaton-Delaval,,. 
Northumberland, in November; 1910+—British Birds, March. 
The final part (24) of Kearton’s Nature Pictures (Cassell & Co., 1/-) 
has been issued, and in addition to the usual plates, contains the title-page, 
list of plates, etc. 
Miss E. Maude Alderson has some useful ‘ Notes on Chrysopa dorsalis ” 
illustrated with a beautiful coloured plate, in the Entomologist's Monthly: 
Magazine for March. “te 
Mr. L. E. Prout describes an interesting aberration of Eustroma 
veticulata (Schiff), bred by the Rev. E. J. Nurse of Windermere ; in The 
Entomologist, No. 573- 
Parts 23.and 24 of the Harmsworth Natural History (7d. each) are 
devoted to the parrots, owls, falcons, eagles, buzzards, etc. One or two 
of the coloured plates are particularly good. . 
There is an admirable account of the Geology of the Districts around 
Settle and Harrogate, by Prof. P. F. Kendall,:in the Proceedings of the 
Geologists’ Association, Vol. XXII., part 1. 
' Mr. K: J. Morton writes on ‘ Teniopteryx putata, with Notes on the 
Species of the Genus,’ and Mr. W. J. Lucas records ‘ Cheshire and South 
Lancashire Odonata’ in The Entomologist for March. 
In the Yorkshive Archeological Journal (part 18), Mr. John Bilson 
gives a scholarly description of Newbald Church. This was built of the 
local Cave oolite, before the times when the Tadcaster magnesian limestone 
was brought down by water. 
We have received part I. of Jnsecta, an illustrated entomological 
review issued by the Entomological Section of the Faculty of Sciences at 
Rennes. It contains a number of entomological papers, including des- 
criptions of some new species of insects. 
The Museums Journal (Vol. X, No. 7) contains a protest against the 
appointment of Sir Thomas Carlaw Martin, as Director of the Royal 
Scottish Museum, Edinburgh. Apparently Sir Thomas's chief qualifica- 
tion for the appointment is that he has been the editor of a provincial 
newspaper. 
Amongst many interesting items in the February Geological Magazine, 
are ‘The Mineral Condition of Calcium Carbonate in Fossil Shells,’ by 
Messrs. G. A. J. Cole and O. H. Little; ‘ The Dragon Tree of the Kentish 
Rag,’ by Dr. M. C. Stopes; and’‘ Fossil Myriopods from the Middle Coal 
Measures, Sparth, Rochdale,’ by Mr. W. Baldwin. 
We are delighted to find that Major Barrett-Hamilton’s History of 
British Mammals (Gurney & Jackson) is appearing with commendable 
‘punctuality. Part 4 (2/6 net) isto hand, and is partly occupied by a 
portion of the General Introduction to Bats; and partly by detailed 
descriptions of The Whiskered, Bechstein's, Natterer’s, The Notch- 
eared, the Mouse-eared, and the Long-eared Bats. There are coloured 
and black and white plates, and illustrations in the text. 
In British Birds for March, reference is made to the note in The Natura- 
list (page 100) respecting the occurrence of the Spotted Sandpiper in York- 
shire. It is stated that ‘the history of the specimen is so confused and 
uncertain that it seems inadvisable to accept the record as fully authenti- 
cated.’ We, of course, accept the opinion of Byitish Birds, and at the 
same time can only regret that the specimen was not ‘seen in the flesh’ 
somewhere on the south-east coast of England; in which case we are 
confident that it would have been described in, and accepted by that 
journal as ‘ A New British Bird.’ 
. Naturalist; 
