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manner of feeding, but were generally single, or at most two together, 

 feeding along ditches that run into the river. They are much more 

 shy than the Tit-Lark. I have looked very little after birds this 

 winter, and nothing has been got here worth notice, except a Fork- 

 tailed Petrel \_Froce/laria leucorrhod\ and a Hoopoe late in autumn.' 

 These extracts are given verbatim; but the punctuation and 

 spelling have been amended slightly, and the scientific names added 

 within square brackets. 



NOTE— BOTANY. 



Ophrys apifera Huds. at Skipton.— In 'The Naturalist' for January 1S87 

 I reported the rediscovery of the Bee Orchid near Skipton. This year, on 

 June 1 8th, Mr. Rotheray found aljout a dozen plants, and on June 24th and 

 July 5th, in the course of two short rambles, we increased the number to upwards 

 of ninety. The unusual prevalence of the plant this season led me to suspect 

 that I had been too hasty in informing Mr. F. A. Lees of its extinction in its 

 previously-recorded Skipton locality — Birtwhistle Rocks ; and, having obtained 

 the necessary permission, I made careful search for it there on June 30th, with 

 the result that I found three plants. The record on page 430 of Mr. Lees' 

 ' Flora of West Yorkshire ' will therefore still hold good, and the note at the top 

 of page 798, which was due to my information, should be erased. 



I have also to record the discovery of Viola hi tea Huds. near Skipton. 

 It grows sparingly at the entrance to Waterfall Gill, between Skipton and 

 Rylstone. This is, I believe, a new locality record for the Aire drainage district. 

 — T. W. Edmondson, Pembroke College, Cambridge, July 9th, 1890. 



LEJEUNEA ROSSETTIANA IN NORTH-WEST 

 YORKSHIRE. 



R. BARNES, 



The Gardens, Saltbtirri-by-the-Sea ; Hon. Local Treasurer to the Yorkshire 



Natnralists' Union. 



In April of the present year, while in search of mosses near Hudswell 

 and Richmond my attention was taken by a species of Lejeunea 

 (larger in size than L. calcarea Lib.) growing on patches of Zygodon 

 Stirtoni and on faces of limestone rock, and which has since proved 

 on examination to be Lejeunea Rossettiana Massal. The excellent 

 descriptions given by Mr. W. H. Pearson and Dr. Spruce in Journal 

 of Botany, November 1889 and December 1889, clearly mark the 

 distinctness of this species from L. calcarea Lib. A portion was 

 sent to Mr. M. B. Slater, F.L.S., who kindly informs me of its being 

 the true plant and moreover that this is the first record of the species 

 for North Yorkshire. I might add that the localities in which it was 

 growing were precisely of the same character as those described by 

 Mr. W. West, F.L.S., in Journal of Botany, May 1890. 



Naturalist, 



