212 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
NOTES—ORNITHOLOG Y. 
y Appear. of the Tree Pipit at pasa. yest Ps r Tree 
a is (ams pace appeared in some numbers as early as a ris 23th, quite 
ir usual time.’ What co oS be the 8 this ? ’ Other 
fikeants vine a little later than usual. —R. ForTUNE, Harrogate, orane 14th, 1894. 
lamborough Bird-Notes.—The fishermen of Flamborough inform me os 
a the 
the Sandwich Tern (Sterna Ngee: Sant deg gris (i cigs Hid orale and 
Curlew (umentus arguata), to seen, avid A 
informs me that he saw, on Fine this spell, from Dot Meret 
e 7 r 3° 
f Ludromias morinellus), on Airy Hill, near to Dotterell tet Reighton, which 
should think is rather late in the season.—MATTHEW BaILey, Flamborough, 
brs 18th, 1894 
mber: 
eo hi saw a eter of this bird (De Beate Seg aie I.) on pe pos of 
i by the sea. It of 
a clum 
by the Dipton Bu near and. This bird is very 
rare in the North of England. John Hancock, in his ‘ Birds of Northumberland 
and Durham,’ mentions only eight instances of its occurrence between 1530 and 
1868—one entry of its nesting being not far from where I saw the present bird— 
e Rev. H. H. Slater, F.Z.S., possesses a specimen obtained near Corbridge- 
on-Tyne in 1872.—H. T. ArcHER, Lombard Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne- 
June 4th, 1894. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
The nth part of the third volume of veg race Pagepeied peg 
frenuietines » published a year or two ago, a paper ‘ The 
ee ouc- containing Cells of rane A ee vile ‘Oliver, from the <a en of 
rnest Weiss, .S., who has since become Professor of Botany 
at he. Owens College, Manchester. 
Some time ago we received from t the Leeds Public a a copy of the 
Catalogue of the Natural History Seuctaunt of the Reference Library. The 
e 
Committee are always ready to heh er the study of natural history in more ways 
rosea one—and a -room in close proximity to the Library is available for 
se of Scientific Societies, “eeleaie ng the Leeds Naturalists, Pevtecenses'#* © 
Philatelic , and “Thores by Societies, all of which have their own libraries ho used 
there, under the wing ob the fawer sen hort 
We have not before had space to notice the g caenieneg of a new a and high- 
e 
ich appeared on the Ist March, but which we have. seen. m 
prospectus, however, ~ he that this journal will steer rine of the persia 
sometimes made of being edited anonymousl ‘The fact of a criticism 
being anonymous phe. to our mind somewhere about per cent. of its 
value ; fe the new journal, with the formidable array of great names on its title 
page, wil . 
tal 
Py 
so far command corre: d 
The 8th part of Vol. 5 of the Zoological Loser of the capa ee 
Pisces is devoted to a paper by Professor L. C. Mi oa P.RS.; , of 
Leeds, in anes with Mr. A. R. Hammond, PLS, n ‘The Dee me 
ey 
are working an in great detail. We are e ple eased to observe that the authors -oyise 
ken care to call int ae f 
tion of their material, and that Mr. R. H. Mead eade, of Bradford, identifies "tbe 
species upon which ‘anes of their work is done as C. dorsalis Meig.= 
C. venustus Zett, 
“Naturalist, 
