NOTES : ORNITHOLOGY AND LEPIDOPTERA. 43 
probable, but this Humber, Trent, and Severn route is certainly not, 
as Mr. Whitlock seems to suppose, the line followed by those vast 
multitudes of small summer birds which make the land north and 
south of the Humber in the latter summer and autumn. 
As a sequel to the note in the ‘ Naturalist,’ p. 15, on some of the 
incidents of the great gale, or rather succession of gales, in the last 
fortnight in November, I have been told by Mr. Bailey that, since 
I left on December 2nd, hundreds of Cuttle Fish have been cast on 
shore nearly every tide, the fishermen collecting them for bait, which, 
for their purpose, much surpasses any other sort. Mr. Haigh says 
that at North Cotes on the Lincolnshire coast thousands of sea 
urchins were washed up. _All these incidents prove how completely 
the sea bottom must have been disturbed and stirred up. The take 
of fish in December has been extraordinary, almost more than can 
be sold at any price by the Flamborough fishermen. 
NOTES—ORNITHOLOGY. 
Go r at Flamborough. i Goosander (Mergus mergansa) was shot the 
other day at Pisoihestings —MATTHEW BalIiLey, Flamborough, Jan. 13th, 1894. 
nate w Wa: abe in West Yorkshire.—As me gg panne 
bout the arrival of A/otact/la raiz, I may wy that here i 
Ribbleedere eg me arrives vse the 11th to the r5th of Apri ril, genie 24 
er; that it nests here in considerable abundance — 
ARD PEAKE, “Settle, January 8th, 1894 
ence of the Bittern near Hull.—At a recent meeting of the Hull 
Scientific ; reported he in his possession a fine example of 
the Bittern (Botaurus stellaris), which was taken near ck-pond on the western 
de e : dette: ination, its st h was found to 
t 
16th January, 
The Ne hei rmorant.— Most peo: Shoneht that the re ating which 
had during the day tes sanctuary on the the top of Newark Church 
would have been allowed to live, but ‘it has abaibily been Sar pat the game- 
keeper o mbe, who resides at Win r rk. The bird 
had been seen th some months, departing at approach of evening for 
its fishing quarters, the river Trent fe light n the ‘ ss it made two 
or ka circles at a great height, to the t amusement of the townspeople, w 
© grea 
w loudly deprecating the deed of shooting it. ane Payne, M.D., 
Newhill Hall, West Melton, Rotherham, Jan. 19th, 1804 
NOTE—LEPIDOPTERA. 
erby.—At the last meeting of the Derby and Rooyen 
Natural History ty, fr. eorge Pike exhibited a splendid s 
Sypolia templi he had captured at light. This is only the third instance ne this 
sect being captured in this neighbourh that I can e Secretary 
exhibite ack specimen of Oforadia dilutata, the only markings as 
‘te <-like mark in the centre of the fore wings wher na rvures 
a 1 
dark forms of Epunda viminalis; and an almost black form of Luperina testacea, 
and dark forms of several other species. —JOHN HILL, Litie Eaton, Derby, 
goth December, 1893. 
Feb. 1894. 
