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familiar “‘ twit, twit’ of course caused me to notice them before 
they approached from behind. I have seen the grouse very 
many times in different districts in Yorkshire. I had a flock 
of over 200 at Patrington on a farm for months.’ 
‘I have observed them at Lockton, Cropton, Aislaby, 
Hackness and many times on Dalby Warren, Hunmanby, 
Speeton and other districts on the wolds.’ 
‘What I took to be the Banded Sand grouse Pterocles 
arenarius, | found had no cry when flying unless after sunset. 
I have often watched the grouse take a header into the 
“* Kafue,”’ N.W.R. by the thousand. It used to remind me 
of so many bullets striking the water.’—R. FORTUNE. 
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LEPIDOPTERA. 
Nonagria arundineta in  Yorkshire.—I was _ recently 
looking through a small collection of Lepidoptera made here 
over 20 years ago, and among the Noctue found some N. 
neurica. I have since seen the gentleman who made the col- 
lection, and have verified the particulars of the capture.— 
C. AsH, Saxton Vicarage, Tadcaster, January 8th, rg12. - 
No doubt the insect here alluded to by Mr. Ash is the 
Nonagria arundineta of Schmidt, which up to the year 1908 
had always done duty in our collections as the neurica of 
Hubner. In that year, however, a Nonagria was found in 
Sussex having a clear white collar or crest, which turned out 
to be the true neurica, and necessitated the relabelling of all 
our previous cabinet specimens as arundineta. The true 
neurica has been taken every year since its discovery in some 
numbers, but I believe only in the one ditch where it was first 
found. A coloured figure of it, with its history, will be found 
in the Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine of September, IgIt. 
Mr. Ash’s record of avundineta is the first for Yorkshire.— 
Gree 
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MOSSES. 
Ulota phyllantha Brid. in Cumberland.—On June 18th 
last, I gathered a small tuft of this moss from the trunk of a 
tree in the woods about Netherby, in the extreme N.W. of this 
county. The leaves showed the characteristic gemme, and the 
name has been kindly confirmed by Mr. W. Ingham. It is 
new to V.C. 70.—Jas. MurRRAY, Carlisle. 
Under the startling heading ‘Locked Among Lions,’ we found a 
reference in the press recently to two youths who ‘found themselves 
locked in among human skeletons, stuffed lions, and other animals in the 
Middlesbro’ Museum. After searching in the dim light, they were able 
to reach an outside window, from which they signalled to a passer-by.’ 
Naturalist, 
