No. 175. 



(Q FEBRUARY 1890. / 



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i^ MONTHLY JOURNAL OF ;jt, 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



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J. GILBERT BAKER, F.R.S., F.L.S., CHAS. P. HOBKIRK, F.L.S., 



Royal Herbarium, Kew ; Dewsbury ; 



W. EAGLE CLARKE, F.L.S., M.B.O.U.. GEORGE T. PORRITT, F.L.S., F.E.S.. 



Museum of Science & Art, Edinburgh : Greenfield House, Huddersfield ; 



ALFRED MARKER, M.A., F.G.S., W. HARWELL TURNER, F.C.S., F.R.M.S. 



St. John's College, Cambridge ; 38, Sholebroke Avenue, Leeds. 



Three Weeks on the Guadalquivir—//. E. Dresser, F.L.S., F.Z.S., etc. .. 



Bibliography: Hymenoptera, 1884 to 1889 



Notes on the Tree Sparrow — F. B. Wliitlock .. .. 



A Plea for the Starling — John Harrisotc 



Autumn Bird-Notes from Notts.— j^. i?. /F/«V/<'r/t 



Storm Petrel in Summer— Rev. H. A. Mncfihersc^n, M.A., AT. B.O.U. 

 Lepidopterous Fauna of Lancashire and Cheshire (Tineina)— 7^//« /;'. Ellis, 

 M.B..L.R.C.P.,L.E.C.S.E.,F.E.S 



Notes — Birds 



AVhite Variety of the Little Gull at Flamborough— 7. H. Guntey ,y iiti . , F.Z.S. 

 Probable Occurrence of Phylloscopus superciliosus near Spurn — 'Johii. Cor- 

 den7ix,M.B.O.U. ; The Yorkshire Records for the Great Black Woodpecker 

 —Rev. H. H. Slater, AT. A.. F.Z.S. , M.B.O.U.; Shore-larks at Flam- 

 borough — Matthew Bailey; Storm Petrel near Alford in 1888 — Jas. Eardley 

 Mason ; Dunlins and Ringed Plovers in Notts. — /•'. B. IVhitlock. 



Note — Fishes 



Occurrence of the Short Sunfish and Torpedo off the East Coast — Joitn Cor- 

 deau.v, M.B.O.U. 



Notes — Lepidoptera 



Colias edusa. Vanessa cardui, and other Butterflies near Alford, Lines. — Edward 

 Woodtlwrpe ; Colias edusa near Arthington, etc. — Charles Smeihiirst. 



Notes — Mollusca 



Molltisca near Spofforth, Yorkshire — Wni. Nelsoti, M.C.S. : Possible Occurrence 

 of Bulimu.s acutus in Cumberland. — Jf'. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S, 



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