FIELD NOTES, 
BIRDS. 
Immature Gannet at Withernsea.—A young Gannet in 
fine plumage was caught alive at Withernsea on October 14th, 
and brought to the Hull Museum by Mr. Joseph Summers. It 
had apparently been maimed in some way. It was naturally 
very ferocious, and could be persuaded to eat nothing but the 
eyes of fishes, which it eagerly pecked from the fish-heads.—TS. 
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ENTOMOLOGY. 
Berytus montivagus Fieb., etc., at Morecambe.—On 
June 27th last I found this delicate creature in numbers at 
Hest Bank near Morecambe. It occurred under stones, lying 
among the Rest Harrow (Ononis sp.), between the path and the 
sea. Calocoris sexguttatus Fab. was common on various plants 
at the same time and place.—JAs. MurRAy, Carlisle. 
— Os 
BOTANY. 
‘Aliens’ in the Calder Valley.—About twenty represent- 
atives of the Botanical Section of the Yorkshire Natural- 
ists’ Union had a good time among the aliens and casuals in 
the Mirfield district of the Calder valley, on August 28th. 
Premier position must be given to the beautiful Crown Vetch 
(Coronilla varia), which has taken up about forty or fifty square 
yards in the vicinity of Lady Wood, Mirfield. Many alien 
plants were seen which we get year after year, such as Sisym- 
brium austriacum, Lepidium Draba, Reseda phyteuma, Malva 
pusilla, Impatiens biflora and I. parviflora, Trigonella caerulea, 
Medicago satwa, Melilotus parviflora, Trifolium resupinatum, 
Lathryus sativus and L. annuus, Cotula aurea, Centaurea 
solstitialis; the spurge Euphorbia Esula on the river bank, 
the pink flowered bindweed Volvus sepium var. incarnata, 
and many others. Many rare English plants were noted, and 
we get a goodly number of these each year, which in some cases 
are well established, although they are only aliens to our dis- 
trict :—-Silene nutans, Evodium moschatum, Medicago falcata, 
Vicia lutea, Lathyrus Aphaca, Caucalis daucoides and C. 
latifolia, Senecio viscosus, Centaurea Calcitrapa, Hyoscyamus 
miger, Echiumvulgare, and many grasses. During the afternoon 
other plants were picked up, viz., a form of Agropyron repens, 
a very variable grass, and a Labiate, which has been deter- 
mined since, comes very near Galeopsis Ladanum var. inter- 
medium.—F. W. 
Ors 
The Selbovne Magazine for September contains a note on ‘ Reckless 
Botanists.’ 
1915 Noy. 
