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world. He was the President of the Yorkshire Naturalists 

 Union some years ago, and The Naturalist has for many years 

 benefitted by his papers and notes. 



Senecio aquaticus at Beverley : a Correction. — In 



my report of the flowering plants found during the Beverley 

 Excursion in August last, I inadvertently recorded Senecio 

 palustris {The Naturalist, p. 392). The plant collected was 

 Senecio aquaticus. — D. M. Browning. 



Abundance of Winter Moths in Yorkshire. — In 



contrast to the many accounts of scarcity of the common 

 species of lepidoptera, it may be of interest to report that on 

 Sunday, November 27th, 1920, an exceptionally mild evenmg, 

 I saw twenty-nine males of Cheimatobia brumata on one well- 

 lighted window at Shelley. — H. Douglas Smart. 



A precisely similar instance occurred here on the same 

 evening. On the posts of two adjoining electric lights near 

 his house at Brockholes, my son counted 25 and 19 moths 

 respectively. Representative specimens he brought to me 

 next morning, showed them to be chiefl}' Hybernia defoliaria 

 and Cheimatobia brumata. — G.T.P. 



Robin removing young from danger. — The note in 

 The Naturalist for December, page 406, recalls to my mind an 

 incident which, although it happened nearly fifty years ago 

 has, so far as I know, never been recorded. My father had a 

 garden on the outskirts of Shrewsbury, away from houses. 

 In it was a summer-house of brick, in one corner of which was 

 a cupboard containing tea things, etc. The top was flat, and 

 on it, against the back corner, a pair of Robins built a 

 nest. We children took a great interest in it, and often used 

 to go and look at it to see how it was getting on, but we were 

 careful not to handle it or interfere in any way. The Robins 

 went in and out through a small hole at the bottom of the 

 door where the wood had rotted away, There was no other 

 way to get into the summer house, so that it was impossible 

 for a cat or other large animal to enter. At length the Robin 

 hatched her eggs, and we saw the callow young alive in the 

 nest. The very next day they had all disappeared. The 

 nest was undisturbed, and no sign anywhere of disaster. 

 We concluded at the time that the old Robins disliked our 

 looking at them so often, and that they carried of^ the young to 

 another nest in the next garden. This was never actually 

 proved, but afterwards we saw both old and youhg Robins 

 about the place, so evidently they had not come to grief. — 

 H. E. Forrest, Shrewsbury. 



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