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Buzzard (1890), Kestrel, Linnet, Greenfinch, Chaffinch, Sparrow, Redpole, Water 

 Hen, Sand Martin, Swallow, Martin, Gull, Crossbill, Bullfinch, Blackbird, Pied 

 Wagtail, Spotted Flycatcher, Curlew, Stone Curlew (1868), Landrail, Horned 

 Owl, Cole Tit, Tom Tit, Bottle Tit, Great Tit, Partridge, Pheasant, Green Wood- 

 pecker, Dabchick, Gold Crest, Stonechat, Snipe, Woodcock, Tawny Owl, Starling, 

 Blackcap, Garden Warbler, Redstart, Redbreast, Wood Wren, Lapwing, Redwing,. 

 Thrush, Fieldfare, Missel Thrush, Sand Grouse (1888). It may be mentioned with 

 regard to the Dabchick, that having been rescued from the village mere, where it 

 had been nearly pelted to death, it was brought to the Vicarage only to meet with 

 a melancholy end. . For a compassionate servant, exclaiming " Puir thing, its a 

 watther bird," held it head downwards in a bucket of water in order to revive it ! 



Reptiles.— Lizard, Newt, Frog, Toad. Fish. — Stickleback. 



ENTOMOLOGY.— The Rev. E. Maule Cole, M.A., F.G.S., reports that: 

 There are abundance of Butterflies and Moths, garden whites, large and small ^ 

 and the Marbled White, which has chosen the high ground (500 feet) for one of its 

 localities, brown fritillaries, and delicate little blues, skippers, red admirals, ringlets, 

 meadow browns and tortoise shells; large white moths flit about like spectres in the 

 darkening twilight, tiger, oak, and hawk moths, vapourers and magpies are fairly 

 plentiful. The colours of little enamelled beetles, scarlet and green, are exquisite. 

 Dragon flies of various hues hover over the artificial ponds, whilst water spiders 

 skim across their surface, and great water-beetles turn up their tails 'to take the 

 air,' and boatmen and whirligigs rush hither and thither. Nests of tree wasps are 

 not uncommon, and I have taken specimens of thesirex, locust (1880), and the large 

 green caterpillar of the Death's-head Moth. 



Mr. Edgar R. Waite, F.L.S., adds that while in the district arranging the 

 Excursion on July 4th and 5th he took the following species, among others: — 



Coleoptera. — Silpha sp. ? (and larvae), 'Hister cadaveriniis (both found on dead 

 Hedgehogs), Pyrochroa coccinea (common on nettles). 



Lepidoptera. — Pieiis rapo:, Hippmrhia janira, Enodia hyperantkus, Ck- 

 nonympha pamphihts, Cynthia cardui, Vanessa itrticcE (and larvte), Polyommatiis 

 alexis (conmion), Hesperia sylvanus, Ardia plantaginis, Triphcena pronitba (com- 

 mon), Asthaia bloineri (common), Abraxas ulmata, and Tanagra chcerophyllata. 



Orthoptera. — Agrion piiella (fairly common). Grasshopper sp. (abundant). 



CONCHOLOGY.— The Rev. E. Maule Cole, M.A., states that snails are 

 everywhere, especially in his garden, worse luck! but in great profusion on the 

 railway, and in some quarries. Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S. , adds that the 

 woods of York Dale, which include plenty of beech, abound in woodland species, 

 such as Clausilia laminata and its var. tiimidnla, CI. riigosa, Helix arbnstorttni, H. 

 nevioi alis, Zonites fulvits, Z. alliarius, Z. ciystallinus, Z. nitidtilus, Z. radiatulus. 

 Helix hispida, Vit7-ina, &.C., all of which have been collected there this year. The 

 chalk pit near the railway (marked on the map) affords abundance of Helix erke- 

 toriim and H. virgata, and a few H. capeiata. Other woodland species may be 

 looked fur, but there being no streams in the district, water shells are absent. 



MICRO-ZOOLOGY AND MICRO-BOTANY.— No information for 

 the immediate neighbourhood, but Volvox has been found in a pond near Burdale, 

 altitude 400 feet. 



AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS will find suitable subjects in the fine 

 trees in Sledmere Park, and attention may be specially directed to the gigantic Silver 

 Fir which stands in front of Sledmere House. 



LISTS OF THE FAUNA AND FLORA of the district, which com- 

 prises the drainage area of York Dale and its ramifications, as shown on the Map, are 

 in preparation, and therefore it is advisable that all reliable information, fragmentary 

 or otherwise, be supplied at the Sectional Meetings. 



PROGRAMME OF MEETINGS.— 



4- O p.m. — Meat Tea, 2/- each, at the Black Swan Inn, Wetwang. 



4-45 p.m. — Sectional Meetings \ If fine in Mr. Cole's garden at Wetwang ; 



5-15 p.m. — General Meeting J otherwise in the Wetwang School Room. 



6- o p.m. — Train leaves for Driffield and the South. 



7- o p.m. — Train leaves for Malton and the North and West. 



