;2o6 YORKSHIRE NATURALISIS' UNION AT LOWTHORPE, 



*t Blackbird. * Linnet. 



Whinchat. Corn Bunting. 



*t Redlueast. Yellow Bunting. 



Whitethroat. Reed Bunting. 



Blackcap. Starling. 



Garden Warbler. Jackdaw. 



Goldcrest. Rook. 



* Chiffchaff. Skylark. 



* Willow Warbler. Swift. 

 Sedge Warbler. Cuckoo. 

 Grasshopper Warbler. *t Ring Dove. 



*t Hedge Accentor. * Pheasant. 



Long-tailed Tit. Partridge. 

 Blue Tit. .- *+ Waterhen. 



* Wren. * Coot. 

 Meadow Pipit. *t Lapwing. 



* Tree Pipit. 



Spotted Flycatcher. Reptiles. 



Swallow. Smooth Newt. 



Martin. trog. 



Sand Martin. Toad. 



Greenfinch. 



House .Sparrow. 



Fishes. 



*t Chaffinch. Trout and Minnow. 



The report of the Conchological Section was given by its Secretary, 

 Mr. L. B. Ross, F.C.S., Driffield, who stated that the section had 

 been represented during the day by Messrs. F. W. Fierke and Brown, of 

 Hull, who had spent the morning and forenoon in investigating the 

 Driffield Canal, and were afterwards joined at Lowthorpe Station by 

 Mr. Ross himself, Mr. J. Darker Butterell, of Beverley, Mr. W. Denison 

 Roebuck, F.L.S., of Leeds, and other investigators. The day's 

 research was not, however, very successful either in land or fresh- 

 water moUusca. The Lowthorpe district cannot from its nature be 

 regarded as a happy hunting-ground so far as the aquatic mollusca 

 are concerned, there being an entire absence of those delightful old 

 ponds, covered with vegetation and abounding in effete animal 

 matter, so dear alike to the conchologist and the snail, and however 

 charming the meandering trout stream may be to the angler, it is 

 almost a blank to the conchologist. The rapid flow of its waters and 

 the absence of vegetation militate against success, the only mollusc 

 that seems to revel in it being the River Limpet {A/icylus Jluviatilis), 

 which is found attached to the stones in great numbers, several 

 thousands being observed in one place. The conchologists next 

 tried their dredges in the gravelly bed of a quieter portion of the 

 stream near Brace Bridge, and fished up the little pea-shaped 

 bivalves, Pisidhim pusillum and P.fontinale var. cinerea; and again 

 trying their luck, succeeded in bringing to the surface Valvata 



Naturalist, 



