FIELD NOTES. 



FLOWERING PLANTS. 

 Cotyledon in South=West Cumberland. — To Miss Dob- 

 son's find for Hodgson's Div. II., South West Cumberland, may 

 be added Cotyledon umbilicus L., which I found on a bank not 

 far from Silecroft Church. Hodgson has no record for Div. II.— 

 Mabel Petty, Ulverston. 



MAMMALS, 

 Pygmy Shrew near Scarborough. — A Pygmy Shrew 

 was taken by Mr. H. Witty, on July 21st, 1912, at Seamer 

 Moor, and was brought to me for identification. This species 

 is probably more abundant than the number of local records 

 (two) indicate, as it is doubtless frequently confused with the 

 common species.— W. J. Clarke, Scarborough. 



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 BIRDS. 



Levantine Shearwater at Scarborough.^ — An adult 

 Levantine Shearwater was shot a few miles south-east off Scar- 

 borough from a boat, in the dusk of the evening of September 

 3rd, and was brought to me in the flesh the same night.- — ^W. J. 

 Clarke, Scarborough. 



Melanic Guillemot at Filey. — On July 9th, 1912, 

 while upon Filey Brig, I saw a flock of Common Guillemots 

 pass at a distance of about fifty yards from where I was 

 standing. One of the individuals appeared to be of a uniform 

 black, or dark brown all over above and beneath, the under 

 parts being, so far as I could see at the distance, equally as 

 dark in colour as the upper. The bird was much too large to 

 be Uyia gryll&, and lacked the white patches which this 

 species has on the wings. I have no doubt that it was a melanic 

 variety of the Common Guillemot ( U. troile).- — W. J. Clarke, 

 Scarborough. 



Honey Buzzard, etc., at liebden Bridge. ^ — It was reported 

 to me in July that a strange bird was frequenting the moors at 

 the head of the Cragg Valley, and that it had also been seen in 

 the wooded portion considerably farther down. My one 

 journey to the latter place in the hope of discovering it was 

 unsuccessful ; as a matter of fact, as I heard later, the stranger 

 had then been killed. Mr. W. Lord, taxidermist, Rochdale, 

 received the bird for preservation, and in reply to my enquiry, 

 he stated that it was a fine example of a male Honey Buzzard, 

 of which my only previous record for the Hebden Bridge 

 district is extracted from ' The Field,' and refers to an in- 

 dividual shot at Blackstone Edge on October 8th, 1866. A 

 Scoter which I saw at Withens reservoir on August loth, had 

 been on that water for at least three weeks previously, according 

 to the waterman. — Walter Greaves. 



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