OCT. 1918. 



No. 741 



(No, 515 of current itrlti. 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



KOITKD BY 



T. SHEPPARD, M.Sc, F.Q.S., F.R.Q.S 



Thk Museums, Hull ; 



AND 



T. W. WOODHEAD, Ph.D., M.Sc. 



Technical College, Huddersfield. 

 with thk assistance as referees in special dkpartm 

 J. aiLBBRT BAKBR, P.R.S. P.L.S., QEO. T. PORRIT 



Prof. P. P. KBNDALL, M.Sc, P.Q.S.. JOHN W. TAYLOR 



RILBY FORTUNE, P.Z.S. 



F.S.A.Scot.. 



Contents : — 



PAGE 



Notes and Comments (illustrated) :— Rats and Mice; Yorkshire Type Ammonites ; Nature 

 A-Musings ; Huddersfield Naturalists : Natural Gas ; Red-breasted Flycatcher Nesting ; 

 Lancashire Naturalists ; British Birds ; Old Scientific Magazines :— The Ornithologist', 

 Animal World, Scientific Inquirer, The Scientific News .. ' 805-308 



Note on the Soil below the Peat on Moughton Fell— ^. Gilltgan, D.Sc, F.G.S. ... 309 311 



Former Status of the Common Starling in Britain— E. P. Bntterfielcl 311-313 



Scent aiands in Lepidoptera: their Character and Functions-/. W. Taylor, M.Sc. 313-315 



... 816-317 



... 317-320 



... 321-324 



... 325-328 



... 829-332 



Notes on the Spiders of North Yorkshire—/. W. Hcslop Harrison, D.Sc 



Ornithological Observations and Reflections in Shetland— £ifmiiH(f Selous 



The Spiders of Yorkshire— PFm. Falconer 



Common Wild Birds of the Scarborough D\%trif:t—\V. Gyngell 



Yorkshire Naturalists at Settle 



Field Notes:— Large Wasp's Nest at Huddersfield ; Cicindela campesiris (L.) in Derbyshire- 

 Scoparia aiomalis ; Cloantha solidaginis (K.) at Bingley ; Malaxis paludosa (Sw.) and Salix 



/i£rtoc«a(L.) in North- West Yorkshire; Pied Redwing 320,334-335 



News from the Magazines 33g 



Northern News 328,383,336 



Illustration 305 



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