NOTES: LEPIDOPTERA. 309 
on the ‘little red hawks’ in Crunkley Gill, and that they had 
killed, little and big, seventeen. A_ natural consequence of their 
merciless and short-sighted policy is an inordinate increase of Field 
Mice, both long tails and short tails. Up to 1846- “47 the Stock- 
dove was a rare bird in Danby, but now as many as six to ten pair 
breed annually. In 1846 there was a brood of nine black game on 
the Low Moor, including two old birds, but, although none are known 
to have been shot or killed, in a year or two they entirely disappeared 
from the neighbourhood. 
f the rarer British visitors Mr. Atkinson has twice seen the 
Great Grey Shrike. The rarest visitor to the parish recorded by him 
was a White’s Thrush (Zurdus varius), one Sunday afternoon on the 
grass under his study window for perhaps ten or fifteen minutes, and 
which was leisurely examined through a pair of excellent field glasses. 
Perhaps the strangest bird visitors to present themselves in the winter 
snows to be fed at the dining-room windows were a couple of Snipe, 
which came regularly two and sometimes three times a = for eight 
or nine days continuously, to feed on bread soaked in n 
All this and much more on the same subject aieee Cae 
Water-rails, and others, we may find in Mr. Atkinson’s volume, an 
we can only regret that space will not permit us to give a more 
general and extended notice of a thoroughly delightful “oi — J.C. 
NOTES—LEPIDOPTERA. 
=) x convolvuli at Barnsley.—On pital pag > had brought to m 
a spedmen of sige i ssieaiiresh fnind at re near the centre 
the town. As far am is the po _pttaasni of S. como 
in this distri rict since the gece season of 1887, during which year to —_? 
were reported, most of them ne — whilst hovering over petunias.—W™M 
Brapy, Barnsley, 31st August, I 
ughtershaw, Lan 
Larentia palciacantty 0 gstrothdale.—In the Se 
tember number ro ‘Naturalist’ there is a note on the i eagle Laventia 
h usu pia 
lity Z as also vette sts Union 3 Indeed, 
scoring to the excursion- circu: the Work Nat 
th 
r on uare bi ee 
currences of Z. oh giegomy in Yorkshire, in ‘ List . 
of 0c 
vf SE F9 pore cot pp- ans and 180; an the food-plant, see note 
the present nu umber, p. 312, by Mr. J. H. ean on Saxifraga granulata see 
Scarborough. —Ed. Nat.]. 
Oct, 1897, 
