lo Morn's : Fawn-coloured Siskin muir Scdbenrh. 



amethyst purple under the microscope, and when pressed yield 

 their colouring- matter to surrounding objects.' The xMasham 

 specimens behaved in an exactly similar manner, and when 

 tresh sections were cut the released colouring- matter stained 

 spores which came in contact with it and certainly gave such 

 the appearance of being- self-coloured. To settle this point 

 finally spores were got without either cutting a section, or 

 <^'&g''"g' a pinch directly out of the disc. A couple of ascophores 

 were placed side by side, on damp moss, in their natural position, 

 in a shallow card-board box ; a glass slip was placed over them, 

 resting: on the edges of the box so as to clear them by 

 about a quarter of an inch. On the following day two small, 

 cloudy, white, semifused circles were seen on the under side of 

 the slip immediately over the ascophores. An examination 

 proved the cloudy spots to consist of thousands of uniformly 

 colourless spores which had been shot up direct from the asci 

 beneath, and had adhered to the overlying glass. The colour 

 leaves the paraphyses on their being- placed in water. 



BIRDS. 



Rough = leg:ged Buzzard near Qrassington. — Mr. John 

 Crowther of Grassing-ton forwarded for my inspection a very 

 fine specimen of an immature bird of this species which 

 had been caught in a rabbit-trap on Grassington Moor, on 

 December 8th. The bird measured 4 feet 9 inches from tip 

 to tip of expanded wings, and weighed 2^ lbs. From tip of 

 beak to end of tail it measured (over all) about 25 inches, and 

 covered exactly 23 inches from head to tail as it laid on its 

 back on the table — which, in my opinion is the better way 

 of obtaining the correct length in this class of birds. On 

 dissection it proved to be a male. 



This bird will be exhibited at the Annual Meeting- of the 

 Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, in the Cartwright Hall, at 

 Bradford, on January 27, 1906, after which it will find a 

 permanent home in the newly formed museum at Grassington. 

 — Harrv B. Booth, Spring Royd, Shipley. 



Fawn-coloured Siskin near Sedbergh. — I saw a light 

 fawn-coloured Siskin near Sedbergh, feeding on alder seed, 

 recently. I got close to it, but could not see any other marking'-s 

 upon it. — W. Morris, Sedbergh, 4th November, 1905. 



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