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FIELD NOTES. 



BIRDS. 

 Quails in Yorkshire. — When Partridg-e shooting- near 

 Melmerby towards the end of September two Quails were 

 flushed, one of which was shot by a friend of mine. Last year, 

 also in September, a specimen was obtained at Brafiferton ; and 

 in July a nest with eggs was found in the meadow grass in 

 Garsdale when cutting the grass. — R. Fortune. 



FLOWERING PLANTS. 

 Green Hellebore {Helleborus viridis) in Cleveland. — 



I have to record the occurrence of this plant in Cleveland, from 

 which district I believe it has not hitherto been reported. It 

 was growing- on June 4th in a pasture not far from Ingleby 

 Greenhow, at an altitude of 425 feet, and not far from a small 

 stream. Mr. J. W. H. Harrison informs me that he has seen it 

 growing in woods near Whitby. In Baker's ' North Yorkshire' 

 no records of Green Hellebore are given from the Cleveland 

 area, though its ally, Helleborus foetidus g-rows at Great Ayton 

 and Rosedale Abbey. Mr. J. T. Cozens, of Stokesley, was good 

 enough to identify the plant for me. — Frank Elgee, Middles- 

 brough. 



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fiVMENOPTERA. 

 Fosson'al tiymenoptera new to the Yorkshire List. — A 



couple of insects taken by Mr. H. H. Corbett at Campsall on 

 the 12th of July, on the occasion of the Y.N.U. excursion to 

 Askern, have been submitted to Mr. Edward Saunders, F.R.S., 

 who names them Psenulus pallipes (Pz.), and Passalaxus 

 gracilis (Curt.), %. Thus, out of four species of this order 

 promiscuously collected on the excursion, no fewer than three 

 proved to be new to the Yorkshire list, demonstrating^ that 

 diligent collecting of hymenopterous insects on the Campsall 

 estate by the Doncaster (and other) entomologists would yield 

 good results. The two species here recorded are among the 

 minute Fossorial hymenoptera that may be reared in the spring 

 from pierced bramble and other stems picked up during the 

 winter. They bore the stems and store them with insects on 

 which their larvae feed. — Wm. Denison Roebuck, Leeds, 24th 

 Oct., 1906. 



1906 November i. 



