Old Natural History Magazines, etc. 391 



also published it at ' Liscard Park, Birkenhead.' It contained 8 

 pages and cover; No. 2, 12 pages, without cover, dated Decem- 

 ber, 1881, was entitled ' The Union Jack Naturalist, a monthly 

 magazine of Natural History.' I have not No. 3, issued in Janu- 

 ary, but No. 4, dated February, 1882, has the words ' Journal of 

 the Union Jack Field Club ' added to the last-named title, 

 and the publisher's name ' W. P. Collins, London,' added. 

 Possibly others were issued. In July, 1882, was published 

 ' Vol. 2, No. 1' entitled ' The Union Jack Naturalist, a monthly 

 magazine of Natural History, with which is incorporated ' The 

 Boys' Naturalist ' [apparently still another publication ! ] New 

 Series, conducted by C. E. Kennedy. It is issued with a cover ; 

 there are 11 pages of matter and 4 pages of advertisements. 

 Among the contributors we notice R. Christie, J. E. Robson, 

 S. L. Mosley, S. A. Alexander, W. Irving, W. H. Bath, O. V. 

 Alpin, H. S. Ward, Clara Kin- "ord and G. 0. Howell. There 

 are also several reports of meetings of societies which are 

 mostly now, alas, extinct. 



More information respecting these and other similar journals 

 would be gladly received. 



BIRDS. 



Pied Wagtails, etc., on Migration. — Referring to the 

 notes on the Pied Wagtail in the October number of The 

 Naturalist (page 360) by Mr. Fortune, I may state in coming 

 from Eldwick to Wilsden in September, 1916, I saw an immense 

 number of birds, evidently on migration, chiefly Pied Wagtails, 

 but associated with this species, were a few Ray's Wagtails, 

 Meadow Pipits, and one or two other species in limited numbers, 

 but what is still of more importance, the Pied Wagtail, which 

 almost always leaves this district in winter to a bird, remained 

 last winter, severe as it was, in some numbers, just as it did in 

 the severe winter of 1879-80. — E. P. Butterfield. 



Breeding of the Long-tailed Tit in Airedale. — Adverting 

 to Mr. Booth's note on the nesting of this species in Upper 

 Wharfedale, the Long-tailed Tit is not a common breeding 

 species in Airedale, but I saw it in the breeding season about 

 Beckfoot, near Bingley. about two years ago, and I think within 

 recent years it will also have bred in Nab Wood. One bred 

 here in a holly bush many years ago. I have also found it 

 breeding in North Yorkshire, where I have good reasons for 

 thinking it may breed more commonly than in Airedale. A 

 gamekeeper within recent years brought me one which he had 

 shot and wanted to know whether it was a little owl ! I think 

 it is commoner here in winter than in summer. — E. P. 

 Butterfield. 



1917 Dec. 1. 



