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CORRESPONDENCE. 



FEEDING HABIT OF THE GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 



The feeding habit of this bird as recorded by Mr. Stracey in The 

 Naturalist, page io6, is a curious deviation from its usual habits in this 

 country. Is it not possible that the Woodpecker might have been feeding 

 upon larvae of some insect or insects inside the fir cones ? — E. P. 



BUTTERFIELD. 



Rook's Nest on a Telegraph Pole. — In one of the main 

 streets of Barnsley there is a small rookery which has been in 

 existence about forty years. This year a pair of birds from 

 this community has constructed a nest on the top of an adjacent 

 telegraph pole. This nest was destroyed by the postal 

 authorities, but the birds have since built a second nest. — 

 R. Fortune. 



Dytiscus dimidiatus in East Yorkshire. — On looking 

 through my collection recentlj^ I found among some Dytiscus 

 marginalis two males of the above species, which had been 

 taken in a pond in Bubwith Ings on August loth, igii. This 

 species I have taken in its Askham Bog localit}^ in April 

 of the same year. We thus possess in the East Riding all 

 the British Dytisci with the exception of the Scotch D. 

 lapponiciis. — W. J. Fordham. 



Osprey in North-east Yorkshire. — While fishing on 

 Lockwood Reservoir, about five miles from Guisbi^o', on 

 April 26th, an Osprey flew about the lake for over half -an - 

 hour. It came close to me three or four times, perhaps within 

 twenty yards. After circling about it went up about 100 

 yards and dropped like a stone, striking at a fish in the middle 

 of the reservoir and making a tremendous noise and splash 

 when it struck the surface. I could not see if it got the fish 

 or not. It then flew slowly away, inland, and did not return. 

 M. A. HoRSFALL, Ingleby Greenhow. 



Les Coleopteres d Europe : France et Regions voisines. Tome 



I. par Constant Houlbert. 332 xxii pa.ufs, 104 fig. dans le toxte et i6 

 planches. 18 grand jesus. Prix, (Broche) 10 fr. (Cartonne toile) 

 12 fr. Libraire, Octave Doin, Paris. Les travaux de systematique ne 

 sont pas rares en France, cependant, c'est la premiere fois qu'un traitc 

 elementairc de I'entomologie est consacre a I'anatomie des Coleopteres et 

 a leur classification. Dans le tome premier de cet ouvrage (les tomes 



II. et III. sont sous presse) sont donnes des chapitres sur la Morphologic 

 Generale, rEmbryogcnic, la Biologic Generale des Larves, et la Classifica- 

 tion des Coleopteres .\dultes. La livre troisicme du tome contient 

 une relation des genres des Coleopteres d'Europe (Geocarabiques et 

 llydrf)carabiques). Afin d'eviter la sechercsse naturelle inhirente a 

 un ouvrafj;e qui ne serait compose ([ue des seuls tableaux d analyse, 

 I'auteur a donne, en tete de chaque famille, queUiues indications 

 generales sur les insectes qui la composent. Nous voudrions bien recom- 

 mander cet ouvrage non sen lenient aux etudiants, mais encore aux 

 amateurs dans les diverses societes scientificiues clu conile de Yorkshire. 



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