No. 172. 



NOVEMBER 1889. 



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NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



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



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 Willi Till'. ASSISTANCE IN SPECIAL DEPARTMENTS OF 



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



Royal Herbarium, Kew ; Dewsbury ; 



\V. 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 ; 38, Sholebroke Avenue, Leeds. 



Contents: 



Plants of the Infer-Arctic Zone on Ingleborough and Penyghent— J. G. Batter 



F.R.S.. F.L.S 



Fowler's British Coleoptera — {Review) 



Notes on the Birds of Central Ryedale, North-east Yorkshire— Christopher U~. 



Smith 

 The Date of the Occurrence of Emberiza cioides at Flam borough— IV. Eagle 



Oarif, E.L.S., M.B.O.U ., 



The Discovery of Arenaria gothica in West Yorkshire — Lister Rotheray 



On the Varieties of Arenaria ciliata— J. G. linker, F.R.S., F.L.S 



The Yorkshire Naturalists' Union at Kirkham Abbey and Acklam Brow 

 The British Association at Newcastle— Rev. /■'. /'. Knubley, M.A., M.B.O.U. 



Notes— Botany .. .. 



Spiraea Filipendula in Upper Airedale—/'. IV. Edmondson ; Mosses at Robin 

 Hood's Bay— jl/. B. Slater. F.L.S. 

 Note -Mammalia 



Seal at Flamborough Matthew Bailey. 



Notes — Fishes 



Anchovies at Whitby— I'hos. Stephenson; Destruction of young Trout in the 

 river Costa— IV. Harwell Turner, F.C.S., F.R.M.S. 



Notes— Ornithology 



Late Breeding of the Nightjar—//. Knight Horsfield, M.B.O.U. ; Richardson's 

 Skua at Settle — Edgar R. iVaite; Spotted Crake at Harrogate — Riley 

 Fortune: Flamborough Bird-notes — Matthew Bailey; Wasp-Nest Destroyed 

 by Great Tits— Rez: F. P. Knubley, M.A., M.B.O.U. 



Note— Alga? 



Cylindrospermum niacrospernium near Halifax — Chas. Crosslaud. 



Notes Lepidoptera . 



Colias ecusa near Scarborough — A. II. Burtt', Colias edusa near Lincoln — 

 //'. Hawker Smith ; Variation in Arctia mendica at Huddersfield — 

 //'. //". Fowler; Acherontia atropos in Notts. — IV. A. Gain. 

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