206 Yorkshire Naturalists at Roche Abbey. 
excursion ; also to Lord Scarborough for permission to visit 
Roche Abbey and grounds, and King’s Wood; and to Mr. 
W.C. Meredith for access to the garden and grounds at Firbeck. 
Six new members were elected, and the Selby Scientific 
Society was admitted to affiliation with the Union. 
VERTEBRATE ZooLocy.—Mr. W. H. Parkin writes :-— 
Of the twenty-six species of birds noted by Mr. Chislett, 
and the writer, perhaps the Gold Crested Wren was the most 
interesting. It occurred frequently, the masses of fine yew 
trees providing a sheltered hunting ground for insect life, and | 
suitable nesting sites. At times two and three males poured 
forth their highly pitched song at the same time. 
A pair of Kestrels, and a Bullfinch, in perfect feather, 
were noted. A Mallard, all alone, an unusual incident at this 
time of the year, was flushed out of the marshy end of the lake. 
In King’s Wood, Jays and Magpies and the Great and Blue 
Tits were seen and heard. 
Mr. Vardey reported seeing the Green Woodpecker and 
Nuthatch. 
The Squirrel was observed in King’s wood. 
ConcHoLocy.—Mr. W. Denison Roebuck reports that 
the collecting was mainly done by Mr. Greevz Fysher and 
himself. The rich district of Roche Abbey and King’s Wood 
yielded Agriolimax agrestis var. reticulata, A. levis, Arion 
ater v. succinea, A. circumscriptus, A. intermedius (a small 
colony of young on a single stick), Vitvina pellucida, Hyalima 
helvetica, H. nitidula and also several examples of its beautiful 
albino form, var. vivens-albida, H. radiatula, H. crystallina, 
H. fulva, Pyramidula  rotundata, Helicigona arbustorum, 
Cochlicopa lubrica, Limnea truncatula, L. peregra, Planorbis 
albus, Pl. vortex, Valvata piscinalis, Spherium corneum, 
Pisidium fontinale and P. pusillum ; the evidence of the day’s 
collecting showing species of wood and marsh, and amounting 
in number to five slugs, nine land and eight freshwater shells— 
a total of twenty-two. The critical species have been seen by 
Mr. J. W. Taylor. 
ARACHNIDA.—Mr. Wm. Falconer writes :— 
From Maltby, both sides of the stream were examined as 
far as the common, Mr. Winter obtaining an immature female 
of Philodromus dispar Walck, not an uncommon spider farther 
south, but up to the present recorded only from three other 
places in the county, all solitary examples. Thence the left 
bank was followed as far as Roche Abbey. This part of the 
route yielded me an adult female of Wideria cucullata C. L. 
Koch., and a male Leptyphantes flavipes Bl., the latter with 
as yet very few recorded localities in Yorkshire, while amongst 
the grass growing on the ruins, I found several immature 
examples of Theridion bimaculatum Linn.—once thought to be 
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