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NOTES— OKNITHOL OGY. 



Ruff and Goshawk near Whitby in Winter 1888-9. — A Ruff {Machetes 

 pugnax), which for some time had frequented the neighbourhood of Ruswarp, was 

 last seen on the 2nd December, 1888. A male Goshawk (Astur palumbarius) 

 was shot by one of the keepers at Keldy Castle, near Levisham, on the 14th ult. ; 

 it is a fine mature specimen, and has been preserved by Mr. J. H. Wilson of 

 Whitby. — Thos. Stephenson, Whitby, 20th February, 1889. 



Sand-Grouse near York. — I have to record the occurrence of three Sand- 

 Grouse (Syrr/iaptes paradoxus Pallas), two females and one male having come into 

 my possession. One of the females was lound dead in a fallow field near here, 

 and the other two were shot in June last year. I have had the pleasure of 

 personally examining some sixty specimens. The majority of these birds were in 

 more or less bad plumage, some evidently well advanced in moult and were 

 chiefly females, of which latter there seems to have been the greatest quantity. 

 The sixty Sand-Grouse seen by me had all been shot in Yorkshire during 1S88. 

 — William Hewett, 3, Wilton Terrace, Fulford Road, York, Feb. 1st, 1889. 



Pallas' Sand-Grouse near Skegness. — The following extract from the 

 •Lincoln, Rutland, and Stamford Mercury' newspaper of 18th January, 1889, 

 recording an occurrence of Syrrhaptes paradoxus, will be of interest : — ' During 

 the past few days Mr. Grimstead, taxidermist, Skegness, has had three Sand- 

 Grouse brought to him for setting-up. The birds in question were shot near 

 Ingoldmells.' This is a parish bordering the German Ocean, about four miles 

 north of Skegness. — Jas. Eardley Mason, Alford, 18th January, 1889. 



Sand-Grouse in Cleveland. — Three more Sand- Grouse (Syrrh apt es paradoxus) 

 have been killed near Redcar. One, a female, was shot from a flock of seven on 

 the South Gare Breakwater at the Tees Mouth, on the 14th February. Another 

 female was killed at the same place on the following day ; and a third example, a 

 male, was picked up on the sands on the 16th. It had an old wound in the side — 

 the cause of death, was very poor in body, and the flesh was quite putrid. Both 

 the female birds were in good condition. — T. H. Nelson, Redcar, 25th Feb., 1889. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



The Rev. E. Maule Cole, M.A., President of the Geological Section of the 

 Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, and Mr. S. Chadwick, one of the Secretaries of that 

 Section, have lately been elected Fellows of the Geological Society of London. 



Mr. S. D. Bairstow, F.L.S., of Port Elizabeth in the Cape Colony, has 

 devoted himself with his characteristic energy to good and useful work in that 

 district, and his Yorkshire friends will be pleased to know that through his 

 instrumentality at the Cape and that of Miss Eleanor A. Ormerod in England, 

 considerable light has been thrown upon the history and the method of destruction 

 of Icerya purchasi, a South Australian bug which — having invaded South Africa — 

 is committing there great ravages on trees and shrubs. A pamphlet on the subject, 

 which is worked out with Miss Ormerod's accustomed ability, is now before us. 



The fifty- sixth Anniversary Meeting of the Entomological Society of 

 London was held on the 16th January, when the following were elected as 

 Officers and Council for 1889 : — President, the Right Hon. Lord Walsingham, 

 M.A., F.R.S. ; Treasurer, Mr. Edward Saunders, F.L.S. ; Secretaries, Mr. 

 Herbert Goss, F.L.S. , and the Rev. Canon Fowler, M.A., F.L.S. ; Librarian, 

 Mr. Ferdinand Grut, F.L.S. ; and as other Members of Council, Mr. Henry W. 

 Bates, F.R.S. ; Captain H. J. Elwes, F.L.S. ; Mr. William H. B. Fletcher, 

 M.A. : Mr. F. DuCane Godman, M.A., F.R.S. ; Prof. Raphael Meldola, F.R.S. ; 

 Dr. Philip Brooke Mason, F.L.S. ; Mr. Osbert Salvin, M.A., F.R.S. ; and 



Dr. David Sharp, F.L.S. 



Naturalist, 



