132 Yorkshire Naturalists' Union : Vertebrate Section. 



Tubaria paludosa Fr. Russula furcata Pers. 



Cortinarius (Phleg.) glaucopus R. savdonia Fr. 



Schaff. R. lactea Pers. 



,, ,, fulgens A. & S. R. armentaca Cke. 



Cortinarius (Ino.)albo-violaceusPers. Boletus cvassus Massee. 



,, (Derm.) tabularis Bull. Polyporus fragilis. 



,, ,, caninus Fr. Fomes connatus Fr. 



,, (Tel.) rigidus Scop. Poria terrestris Fr. 



,, (Hydr.) leucopus Bull. Sphaerotheca pannosa Wallr. 



Psathyra bifrons B. & Br. Dichaena quercina Pers. 



Coprinus tardus Karst. Helvetia ephippium Lev. 



Paxillus lepista Fr. Geoglossum hirsutum Pers. 



Hygrophorus fusco-albiis'La.sch. Peziza (Galactinia) succosa Berk. 



Lactarius insulsus Fr. Otidea leporina Batsch. 



L. umbrinus Pers. Cyathicula coronata De N. 



L. minimus W.G.S. Irpex obliqnus Fr. 



Russula- chloroides Bres. Stereum rugosum Fr. 



New Host Record. 



Pilobolus crystalliuns Tode (on deer's dung). 



It was decided to meet next year at Helmsley. 



YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION : 

 VERTEBRATE SECTION. 



Meetings of the Vertebrate Section of the Yorkshire 

 Naturalists' Union were held in the Philosophical Hall, Leeds, 

 on February 17th. Mr. H. B. Booth presided over the business 

 of the Birds and Eggs Protection Acts Committee, to which 

 Messrs. Johnson Wilkinson, M.B.O.U., Huddersfield, and 

 F. H. Edmondson, Keighley, were elected joint secretaries. 

 Last year's methods having proved satisfactory, it was agreed 

 that bird protection in the county this year continue on similar 

 lines, and representations be made to the military authorities 

 to suspend ' bombing ' practice at Hornsea Mere from mid- 

 April to mid- June. 



In proposing that Lord Devonport, the Food Controller, 

 be requested to make use of the eggs of the Black-headed, 

 Common, Herring, Greater and Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 

 Guillemot and Razorbill, in large and easily accessible 

 colonies, in 1917, Mr. H. B. Booth remarked that the society 

 for many years had helped the gulls, and it was felt 

 that in this year of threatened food shortage, the gulls 

 could materially help us, without imperilling the number of 

 any, all having increased out of proportion to the available 

 food supply in late years. The watchers at the gulleries, 

 with a little assistance, could regularly collect the eggs for 

 despatch to the large towns, where they could be retailed much 

 cheaper than those of the barnyard fowl. Mr. Booth estimated 

 that in this way millions of additional eggs, equal to hundreds 

 of tons in weight, could be brought into the market. He also 



Naturalist, 



