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FIELD NOTES. 
FLOWERING PLANTS. 
Coloured Flowers of Calystegia sepium.—The occur- 
rence of anything but white flowers of the Great Bindweed is 
infrequent. I found several deep pink ones at Cooper Bridge, 
near Huddersfield, on 13th August, 1913. There were appar- 
ently two plants bearing these coloured blooms, situated three 
or four yards apart and surrounded by a large bed of other 
plants bearing the usual white blossoms. The situation was a 
steep bank overhanging the River Colne. The coloured 
flowers each had narrow veins of white alternating with much 
broader patches of deep pink, and were large and vigorous— 
quite as big as any I have ever seen of the normal hue.— 
CHARLES MosLey, Lockwood. 
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BIRDS. 
Unusual Site for a Flycatcher’s Nest.—Last year a 
Blackbird built its nest on the top of some logs which were 
reared against the wall in a farmyard at Felliscliff, near 
Harrogate. This year a Spotted Flycatcher built her nest 
in the inside of the old nest. It was quite open, without any 
cover at all_—R. FORTUNE. 
Bird Notes from Slaithwaite, S.W. Yorkshire.—I am 
indebted for the following to Mr. James Bamforth, Wilberlee :— 
(rt) ADVENT AND INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF SWIFTS.— 
Twenty years or so ago the Common Swift was not known 
to stay or breed about Slaithwaite, but was occasionally 
seen during harvest time, passing over at a great height. For 
two or three years now they have come to breed in the district, 
and this season (1913) have been especially numerous, nesting 
in the cracks and under the slates of some of the mills and at 
Pole Chapel. One was seen hawking near Slaithwaite Station 
so late as 25th September. Locally swifts are known as ‘ ell 
rakes.’ 
(2) MOVEMENTS OF THE COMMON SNIPE.—On the elevated 
tableland known as the ‘ Crimea’ (1100 feet), Mr. Bamforth 
in September shot an example of this bird which had a white 
metal ring round one of its legs bearing the inscription, 
‘“Witherby, High Holborn, London.’ The bird had been 
ringed on the ‘ East Cheshire Hills, 3rd June, 1911.’—Wwm. 
FALCONER, Slaithwaite, 8th October, 1913. 
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MYRIAPODA. 
Geophilus carpophagus at Louth, Lincolnshire.— 
We have received from Mr. A. V. White, of Louth, Lincolnshire, 
a specimen of a centipede which he noticed was quite luminous 
when he picked it up in the dark. Mr. R. S. Bagnall informs 
us that it is not Geophilus electricus, which is rare, but Geophilus 
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