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records for the count}- — Yorkshire, Walton, 1837 ; Brough, E. B. 



Wrigglesworth {Nat., vi., 72). Whitby, E. B. W. [Nat., 1882, 158). 



It a,l£o occurred at Middleton in Teesdale, 8/16, G. B. W. 

 Rhynchites nanus Pk. Leeds, W. D. Hincks, *64. Ecclesall Woods, 



J. M. B. 

 R. mannerheimi Humm. [megacephalus Germ.). Gill Beck, Bolton 



Woods, 6/20, J. W. C, *64. 

 Hylastinus obscurus Marsh. Galls on Trifoliiim pratense on riverside 



between Askrigg and Whorton, W. Falconer {Nat., 1920, 29). 

 ■\Hylastes opacus Er. Wykeham, a few under bark, G. B. W. 

 Dryoccetes alni Georg. Lonsdale, under bark, G. B. W., *62. 

 ^Miarus campanulcs L. Sandsend, 1918, B. R. Lucas (M. L. T., Trans. 



Cleveland Soc). This species occurs mainly in the south, but is 



recorded from Scotland and Carlisle. 

 Anaspis rufilabris Gyll. Chellow Dean, J. W. C, *63. 



Northern Zoological Notes. — Evidences of the influence 

 of the mild season upon wild life occurs in the finding of a 

 Partridge's nest with seven eggs near Rugby on February 

 I2th {Shooting Times, 12/3 /21) ; also a Blackbird's nest, 

 with two young, at Alne this week [Evening News, 4/2/21), 

 and in the unearthing of four young badgers, about a week old, 

 on February 17th, on a farm at Frampton-on-Severn {Field, 

 5/3/21). In the same paper (19/3/21), a correspondent 

 records that when fishing on the Crake, a beck running into 

 Coniston Lake, on March loth, he killed a 6-oz. trout, which, 

 when knocked on the head, disgorged four elvers ; a most 

 unusual event, as the ' run ' of elvers in this district is usually 

 about mid-May or later. Two illustrations of the destructive 

 agencies of Nature are seen in the finding last week of nine 

 large dead salmon in the River Esk near Grosmont. Numbers 

 of this fish have been lately found dead in various rivers 

 {Shooting Times, 5/3/21). In The Field (12/3/21) a corres- 

 pondent records that during last autumn, fishermen in the 

 North Sea saw hundreds, if not thousands, of dead woodcock 

 floating on the sea. A large pike weighing 23 lbs., and 

 measuring 40I inches long and 22^ inches in girth, was, 

 according to The Shooting Times (19/3/21), recently caught by 

 a York angler in the Derwent at Elvington. The Yorkshire 

 Weekly Post (19/2 /21) states that an Eagle was seen at close 

 quarters on the flat cliffs near Filej^ and was identified by a 

 local taxidermist as undoubtedly a Golden Eagle. In connexion 

 with the recent destruction of the White-tailed Eagle in the 

 Peak district, it is interesting to note that it was protected on 

 the Yorkshire side for nearly three months by Mr. E. H. Peat, 

 a keeper in the employ of the Duke of Devonshire. In appre- 

 ciation of his efforts the Royal Society for the Protection of 

 Birds has presented to Mr. Peat, Coward's ' The Birds of the 

 British Isles,' and a pair of field glasses. Would that we had 

 more keepers of Mr. Peat's calibre ! — R.F. 



1921 April 1 



