No. 173. 



DECEMBER 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., 

 Royal Herbarium, Kew ; 



W. EAGLE CLARKE, F.L.S., M.B.O.U., 

 Museum of Science & Art, Edinburgh 



ALFRED HARKER, M.A., F.G.S., 

 St. John's College, Cambridge ; 



CHAS. P. HOBKIRK, F.L.S., 

 Dewsbury ; 



GEORGE T. PORRITT, F.L.S., F.E.S., 

 Greenfield House, Huddersfield ; 



W. BARWELL TURNER, F.C.S., F.R.M.S., 

 38, Sholebroke Avenue, Leeds. 



Contents 



Lincolnshire Sand and Clay Plants— Rev. William Fowler, M. A. .. 



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



Clarke, F.L.S., M.B.O.U. 



Shells of the Lincolnshire Coast— H. Wallis Kew, F.E.S 



Is the Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) Double-brooded 1—W. Eagle Clarke, M.A., 



M.B.O.U.; F. S. Mitchell, M.B.O.U.; Rev. E. P. Knubley, M.A., 



M.B.O.U.; Rev. R. A. Svmmerfield, B.A.; Edgar R. Waite; F. B. 



Whit lock; Basil Carter; Wm. Hodgson, A.LS.; F. R. Fitzgerald, M.C.S. ; 



Riley Fortune; F.G.S. Ravison; John Ward; C.W. Smith 



Note— Geology .. 



Shap Graniie Boulder near Spurn — John Cordeaux, M.B.O.U. 

 Note— Hepaticae 



Cephalozia Lammersiana near Dewsbury — P. Fox Lee. 

 Note— Ornithology 



Nightingales near Knaresborough — Rev. E. P. Knubley, AT. A., M.B.O.U. 

 Notes — Fishes 



Muller's Topknot off the Yorkshire Co.Tst — John Cordeaux, M.B.O.U. ; The 

 Porbeagle Shark on the Cumbrian Coast — Rev. H. A. Macfrhersou, M.A., 

 M.B.O.U. 



Title-page, Preface, and Index to the Volume. 



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