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REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTICES. 



The ' Annual Report of the Hiiddersfield Natur-^ilist and Photoi4raphic 

 Society for 1903' is to hand. It contains a few brief notes on the 

 ornitholog;y, botany, and lepidoptera of the district. An appeal is made 

 to the members to wipe off a very small debt, which will surely be successful. 



The Fifth Quarterly Record of additions to the Hull Museum (publi- 

 cation No. 16, A. Brown & Sons, Hull, id.) has just been issued. It is 

 principally occupied by ' Roman Remains from Lincoln ' and other anti- 

 quarian matter. There are, however, records of local geological and 

 natural history specimens recently added, including- details of the very 

 fine model of Flambro' Headland, showing the zones in the chalk, presented 

 to the Museum by Messrs. A. W. Rowe and C. Davies-Sherborn. 



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'Bird Notes and News' is a circular issued periodically by the Society 

 for the Protection of Birds, 3, Hanover Square. The October issue con- 

 tains many items of interest to naturalists. It is recorded that 127 persons 

 were convicted during- the year ending 30th July for offences under the Wild 

 Birds' Protection Act. In addition there were ten convictions for cruelty to 

 wild birds, such as neglecting to kill injured Seagulls. We sincerely trust 

 that the remark that a Yorkshire 'naturalist' has offered ^2 los. for 

 a sinsrle clutch of Stone Curlew is not correct. 



NORTHERN NEWS. 



Notes on coleoptera in Cumberland in June, b>' H. Donisthorpe, and 

 coleoptera at Southport. by T. H. Beare, appear in the October 'Ento- 

 molog'ists' Record.' 



In the October ' Entomologists' Monthly Magazine ' Mr. G. T. Porritt 

 gives an account of his boating expedition in the Norfolk Broads in search 

 of ^-Eschna isosceles. 



'Notes on the Natural History of the Isle of Man,' with lists of species, 

 appear in the October ' Nature Study,' from the pens of Messrs. S. L. Mosley 

 and W. E. L. Wattam. 



Prof. Augustus Radcliffe Grote, M..A., the entomologist, who has done 

 so much for American entomology, died on 12th September. He was 

 a native of Liverpool. 



At a recent meeting of the York and District Field Naturalists' 

 Society, Mr. S. H. Smith exhibited a blind worm ( Aiiguis fragilis), caught 

 on Skipwith Common on 13th September. 



The Annual Meeting oi the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union will be held 

 at Sheffield, by invitation of the Sheffield Naturalists' Club, on Friday, 

 2qth January. The Sheffield Society is doing its best to ensure the 

 meeting being a success. 



Mr. Ci. H. Caton Haigh contributes notes on the migration of birds in 

 North-east Lincolnshire during the autumn of 1902 to the October 

 'Zoologist.' In the same journal Mr. W. J. Clarke records three 

 Grampuses at Filey on 30th August. 



Mr. Philip A. Burton informs us of interesting instances of Starlings 

 as imitators. A pair of Starling-s built their nest in a grating above the 

 master's seat in a school near Rugb}-. The male bird could crow as 

 loud as any cock, and also whistled, in evident imitation of a boy's whistle 

 of his playfellow. On another occasion his father (Mr. F. M. Burton) 

 was gardening, and heard a Starling imitate the full song of a blackbird. 

 His sister also heard a Starling feebly trying to imitate the bark of a dog. 



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