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FIELD NOTES. 



FLOWERING PLANTS. 



Geranium Columbinum at Marsden. — This interesting 

 .'geranium was shewn to me by Dr. Aspinwall, of Marsden, at 

 the latter end of September. He found it at Inner Hey, 

 Marsden, which, so far as T know, is the second definite known 

 locahty for this plant within the Huddersfield District. — 

 W. E. L. Wattam, Newsome. 



Triglochin palustre in the Parish of Halifax. — In 

 view of the thoroughness with which the flora of the parish 

 of Halifax has been worked up, it is rather surprising that a 

 new flowering plant should have to be recorded from Hebden 

 Bridge. During August I found Triglochin palustre (marsh 

 arrow grass), in what seems to be a very natural situation in 

 Crimsworth Dene. The plant is established over about a 

 yard of ground in a woodland swamp. The occurrence was 

 anticipated in the ' Flora of the Parish of Halifax ' (Messrs. 

 ■Crump and Crossland), where it is stated : ' It might be 

 found in marshy ground, and there are many likely localities 

 ior it.' — Wm. Nowell. 



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 BIRDS. 



Albinism in a Song Thrush. — Throughout the greater 

 part of August and September a prettily marked variety of 

 the Song Thrush has frequented the Allotment gardens at 

 Newsome. The whole of the neck, the entire back and tail, 

 and the right wing were patched with white feathers, making 

 the bird a most conspicuous object. ^ — W. E. L. Wattam, 

 , Newsome. 



HVMENOPTERA. 

 Colletes daviesiana Kirby, etc., at Selby.^ — On May 



24th, 1909, I was fortunate enough to secure a pair of these 

 interesting little bees on the flowers of Chrysanthemum maxima 

 in a garden at Selby. The Rev. F. D. Morice has kindly 

 identified them, and they constitute a new West Riding record. 

 It may also be of interest to note the frequent occurrence 

 this summer of the black variety (^'s of the parasitic humble 

 bee — Psithyrus campestris, Panzer, in the East Riding ; on 

 the flower heads of the family's favourite plant Centaiirea 

 jiigra. — John F. Musham, Selby, Oct. i6th, 1910. 



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