OCCURRENCES OF SIREX JUVENCUS, 325 
Totanus ochropus. Green Sandpiper. A casual visitor. 
There is a specimen at Ellerton Priory which was shot there 
several years ago. 
Numenius arquata. Curlew. An abundant summer visitor to 
the moors, arriving about the end of March. 
Sterna fluviatilis. Common Tern. An accidental visitor of 
rare occutrence. ‘Two were shot near Ellerton about 1876, and 
another in Oxnop Gill about 1877. 
Larus canus. Common Gull. Occurs sometimes during very 
stormy weather. 
Larus argentatus. Herring Gull. Often observed passing 
through Arkengarthdale and Swaledale. ‘Two seenin the New 
Forest, zoth April, 1881, one near Grinton, 29th April, 1832, and 
one on 28th July and another on 7th August, 1883, in Arken- 
garthdale. 
Larus ridibundus. Black-headed Gull. There is a small 
colony of four nests by Summer Lodge Tarn in Swaledale. 
Until 1865 a number used to breed on the peat bogs on 
Punchard Head, in Arkengarthdale. 
The total number of birds I am able to include in the list is 122. 
I may add that the local name for the Hooded Crow is ‘ Grey-back.’ 
NOTES—H YMENOPTERA. 
Sire x gigas at Crossgates.—On the 15th of September, yaneg collecting 
Lepid then ina pm plantation of young poplars, I took a fine o One 
of this Sawfly. —HArryY NELSON, Crossgates, Leeds, September on. 
Sir a m ren | — vis on.—I have just saught an example of this insect 
nh my g d, as usual, it is a fe’ a. . A. SUMMERFIELD, Nort 
oad Viesage cri September kG 
had eaten through at least three inches of solid wood, and through the box-lid.— 
W. Denison ROEBUCK, Sunny Bank, — ghoveasa 13th, 1892. 
juvencus in .—I have to record the capture of a fem ale 
und i 
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of a house in Chea ndon, Mr. Milton, the en 
3B Witson: Wont: aie, toe kad September, 1 1892. 
Nov. 1892, 
