No. 163. 



FEBRUARY 1889. 



MONTHLY JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



CONDUCTED BY 



WM. DENISON ROEBUCK, F.L.S., 



Sunny Bank, Leeds ; 



WITH THE ASSISTANCE IN SPECIAL DEPARTMENTS OF 



J. GILBERT BAKER, F.R.S., F.L.S., CHAS. P. HOBKIRK, F.L.S., 



Royal Herbarium, Kew ; Dewsburv : 



W. EAGLE CLARKE, F.L.S., M.B.O.U., GEORGE T. PORRITT, F.L.S., F.E.S., 



Museum of Science & Art, Edinburgh ; Greenfield House, Huddersfield ; 



ALFRED HARKER, M.A., F.G.S., W. BARWELL TURNER, F.C.S., F.R.M.S. 



St. John's College, Cambridge; 55) Reginald Terrace, Leeds. 



(Contents : 



Lepidopterous Fauna of Lancashire and Cheshire— J. IV. Ellis, L.R.C.P. F.E.S. 



Bird-Notes from the Humber District— John Cordeaux, M.B.O. U. 



The Museums of the North of England 



Braithwaite's British Moss Flora (Review) 



A Few Notes on the Food and Habits of Slugs and Snails— I!'. A. Cain, M.C.S. 



Bibliography— Geology and Palaeontology, 1887 



Note— Fungi 



Agaiicus (Pleurotus) revolutus near Thir.-,k— F. Addison, M.A. 



Note — Fishes 



Burbot off the Cleveland Coast — II'. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S. 



Notes-rOrnithology 



Little Gull and Sclavonian Grebe near Scarborough — Riley Fortune; Pallas' 

 Sand-Grouse in Cleveland— T. H. Nelson. M.BiO.U. ; Crossbills in Ni'dderdale 

 —James Ingleby ; Notes on Nesting-Sites of the Missel Thrush— James 

 Ingleby; Crossbills in the Lake Counties— Rev. H. A. Mactherson 11 A 

 M.B.O. U. ' 



Notes — Mammalia 



Scarcity of Lesser Horse-shoe Bat in Nidderdale — James Ingleby ; Wild Cherry 

 Stones used as Food by the Long-tailed Field-mouse— Rev. J. C. Atkinson 

 D.C.L.; Whiskered Bat in Derbyshire— C/tas. Oldham, M.C.S. 



Notes— Coleoptera 



Asphodius tessulatus at Huddersfield— Florence Mosley ; Coleoptera at Ingieton— 

 John IV. Ellis, L.R.C.P., F.E.S. , etc. ; Coleoptera in Kingsdale, Mid West 

 Yorkshire-John IV. Ellis, L.R.C.P., F.E.S., etc. ' 



Note — Arachnida 



Parasites on the Water Vole— Jas. Eardley Mason. 

 Notes and News 



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