80 NOTES AND NEWS. 
In conclusion, I should like to ask Mr. Cordeaux and others, if 
they have observed in the Humber district, in spring, any migration 
of British breeding birds to the south-west, or any accumulation of 
autumn. I am convinced, from constant observations, that this is 
the course pursued by many species of our North Midland birds, and 
I may say that I have come to this conclusion after having held 
a diametrically opposite opinion. F. B. WHITLOCK. 
February 4th, % 
For several years in succession I witnessed the autumnal migration 
of the Yellow Wagtail on the northern margins of the Humber 
estuary, near to Spurn Head, and I venture to offer my evidence as 
to the whence they came and whither they went. The birds arrived 
from the Wées?, travelling along the north shores of the estuary and 
its immediate vicinity, down the headland (Spurn) to its extreme 
not tarry long; and the birds, which were both old and young, 
preferred the Humber side to that of the North Sea. That this 
species should find its way regularly as a migrant to this district is 
perfectly natural. The bird is an extremely abundant summer 
visitant to the grass-lands which are so fe of the upper 
waters reach their focal point, so to speak, at the head of the 
Humber. may say, from personal observation, that the numbers 
of the Yellow Wagtail in the districts alluded to are more than 
sufficient to furnish the army of emigrants I have seen near the 
mouth of the said estuary en route for their winter quarters. 
Wm. EAGLe CLARKE. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
The 61st annual meeting of the Entomological Society of as gpa was held on 
January 17th, 1894, tion the following poe were elected as Officers and 
Council for 1894 :—-President, Henry Elwes, Ls. ; Treasurer, 
Mr. Robe c » F.R.S. 3 Seer y bert Goss, F.L.S., 
the Rev. Canon Fowler, M.A., F.L.S. ; Librarian, Mr. G Champion, F.Z.S. ; 
and as other mem of the Council, Mr. Walter F. H. Blandford, ; S 
Mr. Charles J, Gah sy Oy: eric Merrifield, Prof. Edward B. Poulton, 
-A., F,R.S., Colonel Charles Swinhoe, M.A., F.L.S., Mr. Georg errall 
Mr. Jam alker, ieee , and the Rig r lsingham, 
LL. D., r. Merrifield then read the President’s Address, in which, 
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after alluding to the principal events of the past year, and the prosperous condi- 
tion of the Society, he referred to the additions which had been made in 1893 to 
the literature of Entomol He concluded by referring t s eath 
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uring the year of several Fellows of the Society me oe Entomologists, special 
oa a made of Prof. H. A. Hagen, M.D., v. Leonard Blomefield, 
M.A., the Rev. F. O. Morris, B.A., Mr. J. Ba 
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