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and not easy to locate, but enough can be seen to make it clear 

 that beneath the capping of Millstone Grit, and above the 

 tawney weathering limestones that form the top of the great 

 scar, we have a degenerate representative of the Main or Upper 

 Scar Limestone of the Yoredale Series. This outpost of Yore- 

 dales faulted in and preserved on the great dip slope of the 

 Limestone massif, between the faults, is of the utmost impor- 

 tance, and supplies an important link in the chain of evidence 

 which will ultimately demonstrate the relation between the 

 Yoredale and the Pendleside or Culm faunas. 



NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES. 



Mr. P. G. Ralfe has some lengthy ' Ornithological notes from Denmark ' 

 in the Zoologist for March. 



The Journal of the Board of Agyiculture for April contains illustrated 

 articles on ' Sclerotia Disease of the Gooseberry,' ' The Corn Cockle,' and 

 ' Edible Fungi ; ' the latter being illustrated by coloured plates of the 

 Sheathed Agaric, the Scaly Agaric, and the Chocolate Agaric. 



In British Birds for April, Mr. G. H. Caton Haigh records the Lan- 

 ceolated Warbler in Lincolnshire — a ' new British bird.' He shot it at North 

 Cotes on November last. In the same journal Mr. C. B. Ticehurst records 

 that he shot a Lesser Kestrel on the Holderness Coast in October last. 



In The Entomologist for April, Mr. A. M. Stewart has an interesting 

 note concerning the fertilization of Orchis maculata. In this he shows 

 that the flowers of Orchis maculata are visited by moths of the genus 

 Plusia. A photograph of the head of Plnsia festuccB with a pollinium 

 attached is given. 



The April Bradford Scientific Journal contains notes on Chellow Dean, 

 by Mr. E. Naylor ; ' The Origin of Chellow Dean,' by Mr. H. B. Maufe ; ' In- 

 troduction to the Study of Grasses,' by Dr. W. G. Smith ; ' Is our Local 

 Dialect Worth Preserving,' by Mr. W. R. Holloway, and notes on Mind, 

 Brain and Colour, by Dr. J. H. Rowe. 



In The Entomologist for May, Mr. W. J. Lucas figures and describes 

 a specimen of Odontopsalis lewisi Burr (an earwig), which was found in the 

 market at Liverpool amongst ' sweepings,' in January 1904. Examples 

 of the same species from Japan were described in the ' Transactions of the 

 Entomological Society of London ' for 1904. 



In the Zoologist for May, Mr. B. F. Cummings has some interesting notes 

 on ' The Formation of Useless Habits in Two British Newts [Molge cristata 

 and M. palmata) ' ; and in the same journal Messrs. D. L. Thorpe and 

 L. E. Hope give some useful ornithological notes under the heading 'Natural 

 History Record Bureau (1909), the Museum, Carlisle.' 



In the excellent May issue of British Birds, there are records of the 

 recovery of three marked birds. A Lapwing marked at North Ferriby on 

 July 15th, 1909, was shot near Broomfleet Island (close by) on December 

 27th ; a Blackheaded Gull marked at Rossitten, Germany, on July 5th, 1906, 

 was found dead near Cowes, Isle of Wight, in March, 1910 ; and a Hedge 

 Sparrow marked at Evanton, Ross-shire, on November 4th, 1909, was 

 caught in a mouse trap at the same place on March 30th, 1910. 



Naturalist, 



