86 PHYSCOMITRELLA PATENS IN DERBYSHIRE. 



July i st. — A male adult Sandwich Tern {Sterna cantiaca) was 

 picked up on Coatham Sands, where, on the same date, I found a 

 Fulmar Petrel {Fulmarus glacialis), washed up at high-water mark. 

 28th. — Whimbrels (Numenius phteopits) and Turnstones {Strepsilas 

 interpret) appeared at the Tees mouth. 



August. — The usual shore -birds were in the Tees estuary — 

 Godwits, a few Grey Plovers, Lesser Terns, Knots, Sanderlings, 

 and so forth. 28th. — I shot an immature Ruff {Machetes pugnax), 

 which was flying in company with a flock of Sanderlings (Calidris 

 arenaria). 



September 30th. — N.E. gale. Six Pomatorhine Skuas (Sterco- 

 rarins pomatorhinus) flew past to the N.W. They were all adults, 

 with white breasts, the long tail feathers being plainly discernible 

 from my window. 



October 15th. — The Middlesbrough taxidermist received a male 

 Eider {Somateria mollissima), immature, which had been shot in the 

 Tees. 1 7th. — A very fine adult Long-tailed Drake {Harelda glacialis) 

 was shot off Redcar. 



November 2nd, 3rd and 4th. — A great flight of Ducks and 

 Woodcock took place. Wind N.E., blowing a gale, with rain. 

 6th. — A Scaup Drake {Fuligula marila) was shot on the sands within 

 a few yards of the Esplanade. 8th. — Another splendid example of 

 the Long-tailed Drake was killed in the Tees estuary by a fisherman, 

 from whom I purchased it. 9th. — I shot an immature Red-breasted 

 Merganser (Mergus serrator) on Coatham sands. Some time about 

 the middle of December, Mr. Emerson found the remains of an adult 

 Little Gull (Larus minutus) near the old Lifeboat House. About the 

 same date a female Great Northern Diver (Colymbus glacialis) was 

 shot near the Tees mouth. 29th. — A Little Grebe {Tachybaptes 

 fluviatilis) was killed in the Tees estuary. 



The season of 1888-9 has been one of the worst I have known 

 for wild fowl — the mild weather, probably, being the reason why so 

 few birds have visited us. 



January 1S89. 



NOTE— CRYPTOGAM 1C BOTANY. 



Physcomitrella patens in Derbyshire.— At a meeting of the Manchester 

 Cryptogamic Society, held December 17th, 1888, Mr. \Y. II. Pearson in 

 the chair, Mr. John Whitehead sent specimens of Physcomitrella patens from 

 Chapel-en-le-Frith for the society's herbarium. It was interesting to know- 

 that this somewhat rare and pretty little moss had been found in abundance 

 on the dried-up muddy bed of the lake at Chapel-en-le-Frith during the dry 

 summer of 1887, by Prof. Parker, late of Owens College. The following gentle- 

 men were elected officers of the society for the ensuing year :— Dr. P. Carrington, 

 president ; Mr. G. A. Holt and Mr. Frederick Power, vice-presidents ; Mr.W. H. 

 Pearson, librarian ; and Mr. Thomas Rogers, honorary secretary. 



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