54 NOTES—ORNITHOLOGY AND LEPIDOPTERA. 
Triglochin palustre L. (sp.). Margins of dikes at Wainfleet. 
Triglochin maritimum L. (sp.) 
Potamogeton perfoliatus L. Steeping River. 
Potamogeton crispus L. (sp.). Wainfleet. 
Eleocharis palustris R. Br. 
Scirpus maritimus L. (sp.). Quite the characteristic plant of 
the dikes. 
Carex vulpina L. 
Ammophila arundinacea Host. 
Phragmites communis Trin. 
Dactylis glomerata L. 
Agropyron junceum Beauv. 
Hordeum pratense Huds. 
Hordeum maritimum With. 
Elymus arenarius L. 
Some fine specimens of Agaricus ( Volvaria) spectosus Fr. were 
seen by Mr. Fowler and Mr. Mason on a dunghill by the roadside. 
This was the only fungus taken note of. 
NOTE—ORNITHOLOGY. 
Smews at Newton cM? sep e near Tadcaster.—Yesterday I received a letter 
from the ido . W. Cha of Newton Kyme, in which he incidentally mentions 
that he has just cbiaine a gue Smew (Mergus albellus) ~ the Wharfe near his 
house. In reply to Sagem asking for — particulars, Mr. Chaloner tells me 
that the bird was killed 0 the 10th inst ; the interesting fact that his 
son, Mr. C. W. Chaloner, who shot the bad, has just secured a male Smew at the 
same place. It is somewhat significant that a female and a male should have been 
This i s is, So far as lam aware, the third Smew obtained on the Wharfe within 
the ‘ Western Ainatye The former one (mentioned in my note—‘ Naturalist,” 
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the Rev. J. W. Chaloner 62 years ago, namely, in the winter of 1829-30.— 
EpGAR R. WAITE, The Nomen, Leeds, 21st January, ie 
NOTE—LEPIDOPTERA. 
Sphinx convolvuli at Newt n Kyme near Tadcaster.—Last autumn 
the entomological rita fobinbee: numerous notices of the occu e of this 
insect in Britain. 
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and Palak, a oan ‘Some years ago + » ay Sadie 
peed and in the morning I Ce ie my cod authe He hee 4 
window. Bare R R. Waite, The Museum, Lea, 21st January, I 
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