2i8 Yorkshire Natttralists at Bridlington. 



Burton, and other birds observed were the Rock Dove, Stock- 

 Dove, Moorhen, Common Coot, Jackdaw, Swift, Cuckoo, Cor- 

 morant, Linnet (in abundance). Kestrel and Sparrow Hawk. 



Lepidoptera. — Mr. Wm. Hewett writes : — The only species 

 observed were Pieris hrassicce, P. rapce, Vanessa urticce, V . 

 atalanta, Polyommatus phlceas, Melanippe fiuctiiata, and Stenop- 

 teryx hybridalis. — W. E. L. W. 



NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES 



In Knowledge for June, Mr. R. S. Bagnall has an illustrated account of 

 some primitive British insects, the Protura, which he first met with at 

 Mitford, Northumberland. 



As a supplement to its Journal the Board of Agriculture has issued a 

 Report on the Isle of Wight Bee Disease. It is well illustrated, contains 

 143 pages, and is sold at a shilling. 



We notice a ' natural history ' monthly, (which, as usual, begins ' about 

 ourselves,') adds a little variety to its columns by printing some of its illus- 

 trations upside down. 



In The Scottish Naturalist for June, Dr. J. A. Harvie-Brown has a 

 paper on ' The Fulmar : its past and present distribution as a breeding 

 species in the British Isles,' illustrated by a map. 



In the Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society (Vol. XXVII., 

 Part II.), Dr. A. Wilmore refers to ' Some Geographical Problems of the 

 Mid-Pennines.' 



We have received Part XI. of Major Barrett- Hamilton's History of 

 British Mammalia (Gurney & Jackson, 2/6). . It deals with rabbits and 

 hares, and there are illu.strations of Scottish, British, and Irish hares, 

 spoors, and skulls and teeth. 



Part VII. of Buckman's Yorkshire Type Ammonites has been pub- 

 lished, and contains figures and descriptions of Ammonites solitarius, 

 A.trivialis, A.tenellus, A.flavus, A.limatus, A. andraei, A. crassulosus, 

 A. fonticidus, and A. crosbeyi. 



In British Birds for June, Mr. P. R. Lowe figures and describes what 

 he considers to be a ' new race ' of the ' Lesser Black-backed Gull of the 

 British. Isles,' under the name Larus fuscus britannicus. In the same 

 journal Mr. Charlton describes the behaviour in captivity of a Tengmalm's 

 Owl, caught in Northumberland. 



In The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine for June, Dr. Bergroth des- 

 cribes a ' New British Tipulid,' under the name Ephelia verralli. Specimens 

 are recorded from Warwickshire and Derbyshire. In the same journal 

 Mr. F. W. Edwards describes a dipteron new to Britain, viz. : Oligotrophiis 

 ventricolus, presumably from Oldham, Lanes. 



In the Geological Magazine for June, Mr. B. Smith has a paper on the 

 Green Keuper Basement Beds in Nottingham and Lincolnshire, and Dr. 

 Stopes figures the famous shell of Pectunctiilus glycimeris, upon which a 

 human face is carved, and which is alleged to have been there before the 

 formation of the Red Crag. All we can say is that the ' face ' on the 

 shell is very suspiciously ' beery.' 



■ Parts IV. and V. of The Living Plant, by A. E. Knight and E. Step, 

 published by Hutchinson & Co., at yd. each part, maintain the good 

 features of the earlier numbers. They deal with the ascending and descend- 

 ing sap of plants in a popular manner, and on every page there are ex- 

 cellent illustrations of insectivorous plants, parasites, saprophytes, luminous 

 plants, and others. There is a coloured plate with each part. 



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