8 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS IN MID-RIBBLESDALE. 
hurried on account of members having to travel by an early train. 
The following accounts are a summary of the day’s work :— 
The Rey. E. P. Knubley furnishes the following notes made by 
‘the Vertebrate Section :—The animals and birds seen during this 
excursion do not call for special remark. The birds which frequent 
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birds noted during the day were es Pied. Fijesechs and the 
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e fish it was pleasing to obtain evidence that the Grayling 
still ise the Ribble. Clarke and Roebuck in their ‘ Handbook 
of Yorkshire Vertebrata,’ published twelve years ago, speak of its 
extreme scarcity, if not extinction, from that river, a result ascribed 
to the great increase of Salmon. 
Mammals, 4. Coal Tit. Mappie. 
Stoat. Marsh Tit. Jackdaw. 
Weasel. Blue Tit. Rook. 
Squirrel. Wren. Kingfisher. 
Rabbit. Pied Wagtail. Sparrowhawk. 
Birds, 34. Grey Wagtail Kestrel 
Missel Thrush. Yellow Wagtail. Ringdove. 
Song Thrush Meadow Pipit. Pheasant. 
Blackbird. Tree Pi Fishes, 7 
Whinchat. Spotted Flycatcher. Bullhead. 
Redstart. Pied Flycatcher. Minnow. 
Redbreast. Swallow. ike. 
Whitethroat. Martin. Salmon. 
Garden Warbler Sparrow. rout. 
Willow Wren. Chaffinch. Grayling. 
Hedge Sparrow. _ Starling. el. 
The park at Gisburn belonging to Lord Ribblesdale is of special 
interest to vertebrate zoologists, as it was there where the last herd 
of Wild White Cattle known to be in Yorkshire was kept. The last 
survivor was killed in 1859, and a specimen is preserved in the 
Manchester Museum 
Mr. W. Denison. Roebuck, F.L.S., was apparently the only 
conchologist on the ground. He investigated the neighbourhood 
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Ribble upwards to Gisburn. Unfortunately Mr. Roebuck was not 
successful in finding the old river-channel which, on the occasion of 
Naturalist, 
