YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION AT MALHAM. 173 
ground at ‘ The Sinks,’ and was found to make its appearance at Aire 
Head. In seconding the resolution, the Rev. E. P. Knubley, M.A., one 
of the Hon. Secretaries of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union, said that 
they had the good fortune of having in the county landowners 
who had always shown themselves willing to assist the Union in its 
investigations. The motion was carried, and responded to on behalf 
of Mr. Morrison and himself by the Rev. T. C. Henley. On the 
proposition of Dr. Valentine Ball, F.R.S., of Dublin, seconded by 
various members of the Union who had acted as leaders of parties. 
Association had been received, and remarked that its Leeds meeting 
had not only been a most successful, but a most agreeable one. 
Shortly after six o’clock the excursionists proceeded by con- 
veyances to Bell Busk, where they arrived in time for the special 
train which was to convey them to 
The following reports have been prepared by the several officers 
in charge of their respective sections 
For the Vertebrate section, Mr. a. R. Waite, F.L.S., writes :— 
British Association, the number of Y.N.U. members attending 
the section was consequently small, but all the officers were 
on the field, viz., the President, Mr. Thos. Bunker, Goole, and the 
Hon. Secretaries, Messrs. James Backhouse, F.Z.S., Harrogate, and 
Edgar R. Waite, F.L.S., Leeds. One or two representatives of the 
section rode with the general party from Bell Busk to Malham, but 
the majority elected to traverse the six miles afoot, leaving the dusty 
high road for the fields where practicable. A Goldfinch was seen on 
the road between Bell Busk and Airton, and flocks of Chaffinches, 
Greenfinches, Sparrows, and Yellow Buntings rose from the corn- 
fields as the party passed by. The end of summer is a season not 
conducive to obtaining a long list of birds, for most of the warblers. 
and many other migrants have left the uplands and are going down 
the valleys preparatory to their annual migration ; the only summer 
visitors seen on the excursion were the Ring Ouzel, Swallow, Martin, 
and Sand Martin. It is also too early for the winter visitors, so that 
the bulk of the birds recorded are residents. On arriving at Malham 
several nests of the House Martin were seen under the eaves of the 
‘Buck,’ containing young birds, which were being fed by their 
parents heedless of the presence of the bystanders. From here the 
party proceeded up Gordale Beck, where several Dippers and one or 
two Water Voles were met with. Arrived at Gordale Scar a Kestrel 
June 1891, 
