284 NOTES—ORNITHOLOGY AND BOTANY. 
NOTES—ORNITHOLOG Y. 
Spotted Crake in Holderness. —Whilst ace i hat the collection of 
Mr. Fisher, of Aldborough, Holderness, I obser specimen of the 
Spotted Crake (Porzana maruetta). The bird was nig Roe ber, 1892, near 
e coast. isher als i 
white 
ri pr flying. _T. PETC n, Hosea Jan. 2 
Flamborough Bird-Notes.—I have been infor — he pas that at 
the last high tides ape oe of Guillemots speed tole Paige cts own their 
young on their backs. en the tides pr der the cliffs. Just 
imagine the old birds iene down a cciie # picks a trem se ae height ; 
and the little wee thing dives as s he reac a the water, only to remain 
for a very short time, then reer ee boa ibiseaie —MATTHEW BAILEY: Flam 
horough, Jay 23rd, 1894. 
in the Lake District.—A fli ght of ig (Loxta Pod dagpvont 
numbering 17 to 19, appeared on o upper slopes of the Esthwaite valley, on July 
loth ; they ee then very noisy, — and quick ; fhe ey have since, remaining to 
— The fl divided ey 
have sev more tha mber. ) 
eng possible to get quite © close to these ins, and watch them feeding. 
Most of them (no doubt the aye ng) appear a nondescript br wee: while a few show 
aye at fond -green hue ; but a party whose numbers I could not be sure of (so 
eee did they Pt in oe trees), I saw a wo red birds, ap ‘aul Paes bees ugh 
n that sunny day t the oak trees, and were poking int o the 
bark, especially that RF dead limbs of “the trees, it is clea rly abe harvest of fir- 
cones that — them in the neighbourhood. The seeds of the resinous and 
odorous larch-cone, though its — are yet green, are not very palatable. _ The 
bird’s method in poker aber fast-locked treasures is this: after ambling along 
the ae sey nh its end, and reaching or rishi. to the tiny twigs that bear the cone, 
it breaks them off and carries it back to the bough, where, pinned down with claw 
it proceeds to me upon it with erhalina head and wide distended beak. First, in 
ute ne 
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ripped open edge. rent unlocks oy oor (so to speak) of the 
but still vil aps seed lie far Selow shee rent at the base, mee oc ‘ge: of vate 
it out must, I conclude from the admirable eid a in Yar ormed by 
the curious hinged tongue of the bird, which when once the aa endo ng work is 
done by the curved beak, can pro downwards. sins bers of these cones, with 
scales so neatly torn that at first the injury does not show, lie below the posed from 
which the seeds are al a i magic a) extracted. The bird, ce 
cone is stripped, cleans both on bough and with its claw. @_MAR 
ArRMitTT, Ambleside, rte 14th, 1894. 
NOTES— BOTANY. 
oonwort and Adder’s-Tongue in Langstrothdale.—About the middle . 
of jnlp last, I found Setrychium lunaria growing oe at the a of the 
‘ Jeffery Pot,’ at an elevation of fully 1,900 ft. or I also found it at 
posing : ie en fie Sunday, August 12th, haps young botanists, 
daughters of Mr. Preston, of Holmfirth, accompanied m a search for new 
plants. They picked up three py ur near Messrs. Tattersall’ sare Starbeck- 
As they did not accord igre ritish species, I sent three to Kew, ed brite eco 
been identified as follows i) Abyssum be = J ‘nea, (2) Melilotus parc? 
— Ne M cerulea. All —— for Nidderdale ‘apparently 
. 3 a new record for Gouaker: “The si tuation of course shows they @ 
atin, but the seed would in (1) and (2) almost certainly ripen.—JAMES W. a 
ADDY YMAN, Via Starbeck, August 19th, 1894. 
