MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. I5 
which has prevailed, these causes having also undoubtedly tended to 
minimise the number of larve, which have been unusually scarce. 
The following species of Noctua, which are not usually double- 
brooded with us, have this year been double-brooded or partially so : 
Leucania pallens, Acronycta pst, A. rumicis, Noctua plecta, N. ¢-nigrum, 
Agrotis segetum, A. suffusa, Hadena suasa, and H. oleracea. 
NOTE—LEPIDOPTERA. 
Acherontia atropos near Barnsley.—I have — seen an unset specimen 
of Acheronti atropos which had been disturbed and captured, ‘ about se —“— 
ago,’ by some boys witha ghost in an old hollow aan near ge 
species is pa ecorded from this district.—WwM. E: any. eae 
8th December, ese 
NOTE—ZOOPHYTES. 
Alcyonium digitatum on Yorkshire Coast.—Some of the incidents of the 
great gale at Flamborough on the 18th. nid 19th of November, from the N. an 
also south of the Head tow e the 22nd 
I found an extraordinary quantity o of Aleyoninm digita um, one of the Asteroid 
tis Po br sas off from their moorings and cast on shore is is better known 
*‘dead-man’s hand’ or ‘ fin wi : eS inet also call it * cows’ paps. 
I also pic! irked 3 ae wave-cast Stormy Petrel on the noo ay of yee pi pisrione 
poor little tia Ds could not pile Bk this storm e S were se 
ear the coast, and three storm-driv: Mio n birds caught tdland. fous CORDEAUX, 
Great Cotes, RS. O., Lincoln, Dec. 12th, 1893. 
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Occurrence of the Barred War Holderness.—On November 
13th, Mr. Philip Loten, of Easington, received a young male of this species 
(Sylvia nisoria Bechstein) shot on that day by Mr. G. E. Soyeelas fai aera 
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a second, October ote 1892, and this. JOHN CoRDEAUX, Great Cotes, R.S.O., 
Lincoln, December is ,» 1893. 
of Fieldf. fares - —_ Cum berland.—On Tuesday, 
like, the writer was taking an Shares stroll on the outskirts of the seaport of 
on, when he suddenly heard th ct ‘clacking’ cry of 
of fieldfares ( Turdus pilaris) in full flight. Seeing no birds near him, he felt at 
t that he must be m en. Presently the cries were repeated vigorously, and 
ca n an upright direction, he saw im tely overhe: k of 
fieldfares numbering about a hundred. Their line of flight was at a muc 
elevation than is customary with these birds, and the direction was towards the 
uth-wes' usual time of their ap here is about the end of October, 
or during the first days of November, and their early presence is regarde 
ominous of se oe in the near future.—W. Hopcson, Workington, 
shay 27t 
ll be sie ected to mention that I saw a Fieldfare near Edinburgh, on the 
24th as Segtauthes the first I ever saw in Britain in that month. —W. E. CLARKE. 
Jan. 1894. 
