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NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES. 



A Wryneck was heard at Studley Royal near Ripon, on June 8th, 1909. 

 — Zoologist, December. 



Rhopalome sites tardyi Curt, is recorded for Lancashire, a female being 

 caught near Ulverston in August last. — Entomologist' s Monthly Magazine. 



Dr. J. E. Marr and Mr. W. J. Fearnsides have a lengthy and well- 

 illustrated paper on ' The Howgill Fells and their Topography,' in the 

 Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. 



Mr. F. F. Blackman has an interesting paper on ' Vegetation and 

 Frost ' in The New Phytologist for December. In the same journal is an 

 illustration of Botrychium lunaria with two fertile fronds. 



Mr. W. Eagle Clarke writes on ' The recent remarkable visitation of 

 Crossbills ' in The Annals of Scottish Natural History, No. 72. In the same 

 journal Mr. F. N. Williams writes on ' The High Alpine Flora of Britain.' 



In ]\Ian for January, Mr. C. T. Trechmann records a miniatui'e imple- 

 ment of transparent quartz, from the site of the lake dwelling in the 

 Greifensee, Switzerland. The implement measures 11 millimetres long, 

 bv 0>h millimetres broad. 



Mr. G. H. Caton Haigh .shot a Yellow-Crowned Warbler at North Cotes, 

 Lines., on October 12th, and a Red-Breasted Flycatcher at the same place, 

 on September i6th, the latter being said to be the first record of the species 

 for Lincolnshire. — British Birds, December. 



In British Birds for January, Mr. H. F. Witherby figures and describes 

 the specimen of Noi-dmanrt's Pratincole, shot at Danby Wiske, and des- 

 cribed in these pages for November ist last. Mr. Fortune's photograph 

 is also reproduced, without any reference to the photographer. In the 

 same journal is a photograph of a nest of a Raven, with young, taken in 

 Northumberland. 



Tlie Bradford Scientific Journal for January contains a paper on the 

 ^Migration of the Swift, by Mr. E. Harper ; ' the Lees' Herbarium,' by Mr. 

 F. A. Lees ; ' The Roman Road between Cockhill and Ilkley,' by Dr. F. 

 Villy, and some valuable local natural history observations made by the 

 recorders of the Bradford Naturalists' and Microscopical Society. 



Besides the paper on ' jNIoorlog ' referred to on page i, the Essex 

 Naturalist (Vol. XVI., pts. I. and II.) contains interesting papers on ' The 

 Re-afforestation of Hainhault ' ; ' A New Forest of Weltham,' ; ' Notes on 

 Palaeolithic and Neolithic Implements in East Essex,' and a report of two 

 Conferences on the use of museums in promoting ' Nature Study ' in schools. 



Our contributor, the Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge, F.R.S., favours us 

 with a reprint of his paper ' On British Arachnida noted and observed in 

 1908,' which appears in the Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History 

 and Field Club. It is pleasant to find that a very large proportion of the 

 new species recorded is due to the efforts of Yorkshire workers. 



In the Bradford Scientific Journal for January, is a short note recording 

 a bed of peat between two clays in the Wrose Brow Brick Works. ' It 

 rests horizontally and apparently undisturbed between two blue clays, 

 . . . the lower clay is about 25 feet thick, and the upper one 8 feet thick.' 

 It is stated that ' both these deposits are probably boulder-clays.' If this 

 is so, the section is of the utmost importance, and we trust our Bradford 

 friends will make a very careful examination of the beds. 



Naturalist, 



