No. 174. 



JANUARY 1890. 



MONTHLY JOURNAL 01' 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



CONDUCTED 15Y 



WM. DENISON ROEBUCK, F.L.S., 



Sunny Bank, Leeds ; 



WITH THE ASStSTANXE IN SPKCIAI, DEPARTMENTS OF 



J. GILBERT BAKER, F.R.S., F.L.S., 

 Royal Herbarium, Kew : 



W. EAGLE CLARKE, F.L.S., M.H.O.U., 

 Museum of Science & Art, Edinburgh 



ALFRED MARKER, M.A.. F.G.S., 

 St. John's College, Cambridge ; 



CHAS. P. HOBKIRK. F.L.S., 

 Dewsbury ; 



GEORGE T. PORRITT, F.L.S., F.E.S., 

 Greenfield House, Huddersfield ; 



W. BARWELL TURNER, F.C.S., F.R. M.S. 

 38, Sholebroke Avenue, Leeds. 



Contents : 



Cause of the Coloration of Red Sandstones— 7". Mellard Reads, F.G.S 

 Report of the Yorkshire Marine Zoology Committee— 7. Ptrcy A. Davis 

 Ornithological Notes from the Humber District, in the Autumn of 1889 — 



JohnCorde.tux. M.B.O.U 



Geological Papers relating to the North of E.r\g,\a.nd—S. A. Adamson, F.G.S. 

 Occurrence of the Germon on the Cumberland Coast — Rev. H. A. Macfiherson, 



M.A., M.B.O.U 



Some Rare Mosses in Cumberland— i^i»z/. C. H. Phistead, B.A 



Occurrence of Carex strigosa in North Yorkshire — J. Gilbert Baker, F.R.S., 



F.L.S 



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



Notes — Ornithology 



Long-tailed Duck inland in Northumberland — Alfred C. Chapman ; The Two- 

 barred Crossbill in Lincolnshire, etc. — Jolin Cordeaitx, M.B.O.U. ; An 

 Albino Wheatear in Cumberland — //•". Hodgson, A.L.S.; Redbreasted 

 Flycatcher at Scarborough — "jf. //. Gurney, Jnti., F.Z.S. ; Great Spotted 

 Woodpecker near Alford — Jas. Eardley Mason ; Great Spotted Wood- 

 pecker at Liversedge, Yorkshire — Rev. E. P. Knubley, JM.A., M.B.O.U. ; 

 Flamborough Bird-Notes — Matthew Bailey. Wa.xwing and Dotterel in 

 Central Ryedale — Jno.H. Phillips: Late Breeding of Starling in Nor- 

 thumberland — H. T. Archer. 



Note— Botany .. 



Draba verna in November—/'. J. Maclagan. 



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