132 Field Notes. 



5th. Unfortunately it was too badly shot about the head and 

 neck to be worth preserving. — Sydney H. Smith, York, 

 February 14th, igio. 



Crossbills near York. — A party of Crossbills was seen near 

 York by ]\Ir. George Machin. The birds were observed about 

 the middle of November in the woodland district Ij'ing between 

 Skelton and Wigginton, four miles north of York. Three birds 

 were shot, two males and one female. They were dissected by 

 Mr. Helstrip, taxidermist, who stated they had been feeding 

 upon seeds of the plaintain. On December 15th last ten were 

 seen in the same locality, and, I believe, are still frequenting 

 the district. — Sydney H. Smith, York. 



— : o : — 

 ARACHNIDA. 



Agroeca celans Bl. — A Spider new to Yorkshire. — On 



January 5th, I took an adult female of this species on the 

 Storthes Hall side of Woodsome, Huddersfield. This is the 

 first time it has been observed in Yorkshire. It is also else- 

 where a scarce spider, being on record for one Irish locality, 

 Dorset, Surrey, Sussex, Northumberland, Cumberland, and 

 Grange-over-Sands in Lancashire, where I obtained an adult 

 male in a wood, August 1903. The only other representative 

 of the genus in the county is the much commoner Agroeca 

 'proxima Camb., which has now been met with in all the Ridings. 

 — Wm. Falconer, Slaithwaite, January 27th, 1910. 



Pachygnatha listeri Sund. in Yorkshire- — On the 



same day, on both the Almondbury and Storthes Hall sides of 

 the above estate, I bottled one male and five females, all adult, 

 of another rare British spider, P. listen Sund. I knew, however, 

 of its occurrence here, as I had previously, in March 1908, 

 obtained a female. Its first record as a Yorkshire species 

 occurs in the ' Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland ' (Black- 

 wall), having been discovered near Bradford in the 'fifties. 

 It does not seem to have been secured since by anyone except 

 myself, my first acquaintance with it being made in a wood at 

 Dalton Lane, near Leeds, where I met with both sexes in Sep- 

 tember 1906. It is a very distinct spider, and is by its vivid 

 colouring distinguishable at sight from its more soberly marked 

 and generally distributed congeners, P. dcgeerii Simd and P. 

 clevckii Sund. — ^^\v. Falconer, Slaithwaite, January 27th, 

 1910. 



