NOV. 1918. 



No. 742 



(No, 516 of ourrant lorlit. 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OP 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



T. SHEPPARD, 



EDITED BY 



M.Sc, F.Q.S., F.R.Q.S., F.S.A.Scot.. 



The Museums, Hull ; 



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



Technical Collkge, Huddersfield, 



WITH THE assistance AS REFEREES IN SPECIAL DEFARTMEN 



J. aiLBBRT BAKBR, P.R.S. P.L.S., QBO. T. PORRITF, 



Prof. P. P. KENDALL, M.Sc, P.n.S.. JOHN W. TAYLOR, 



RILBY FORTUNE, P.Z.S. 



Contents : — 



PAGE 



Notes and Comments : — Splitting of Coal Seams, and their causes ; Agricultural Pests ; 

 Rooks, Starlings and Pheasants ; The Problem of Man's Ancestry ; Man's Origin ; Birds 

 and Eggs ; Plovers' Eggs ; Making of Yorkshire ; Carboniferous Goniatites ; Capt.H.V. 

 Corbett 337-341 



List of Marine Mollusca of Iceland— //«ns Schlesch 



342-346 

 347-350 

 351-354 

 355-357 

 357 



Ornithological Observations and Reflections in Shetland— £t/;;M.>iiY 5f/ot(s 



The Spiders of Yorkshire— IFw. Falconer 



Common Wild Birds of the Scarborough DUtrict—W. Gyngell 



Yorkshire Botanists— .4 . C/j^f/Zium 



Field Notes -.—Cicimlela campestris (L.) in Derbyshire ; Gonepleryx rhamni at Louth ; Sciaphila 

 sinuana in Yorkshire ; Flesiodcina pinetellum Zett. in Yorkshire ; Pclyommaitis phlaeas in 

 Yorkshire ; Cause of Coloration in P. phlaeas; Cumberland Psyllidae ; Vibration or Scent 

 in Animals; Early Reference to Starlings; White Wagtail in Nidderdale; Corncrake 

 calling in the air ; A Late Swift; C/itwce/'/irt/xs rfiVi/>/iauin» from Yorkshire ; Changes in 

 the Colour of the Pine Marten 358-362 



Correspondence: -Scent Glands in Lepidoptera; Former Status of the Common Starling 



in Britain 3G3-365 



Reviews and Book Notices 311,366-368 



Northern News 357, 368 



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