II4 NOTES— ORNITHOLOGY. 
Green was a man of simple tastes. He hated every k 
pretence, liked plain food, plain writing, and plain speech. H 
never afraid to say ‘I do not know,’ and would make good- hu 10 
fun of the practice of giving a hard name to a thing in the b 
that it was thereby explained. Those who had dealings of any k 
with him found that he was straightforward and honourable. 
friends. knew that he was also considerate and_ self-sacri 
e€ was 
thoroughly respected. Weppebanaking discovery, no brilliant 
_ fallacious doctrine is associated with his memory ; he was Si 
a hard-working and useful student of science. 
As a teacher he was eminently practical. Beginning with a 
of sandstone and a piece of granite, he would show how they 
be studied by pounding, washing, treatment with acid, etc. 
Daubrée, and these he would exhibit to his class. In the field 
students were taught early to develop their own resources. — 
would set them to some simple piece of mapping or section-dra 
subsequently going over the work with them to check and criti 
when necessa _ 
Some of the facts cited above are taken from a notice 10 
‘Geological Magazine’ for October 1896, while for infor 
relative to Professor Green’s work at Leeds we are indebted 
Professor L. C. Miall and Mr. W. W. Watts. A, 
NOTES—ORNITHOLOG Y. 
Red-backed Shrike at 5 orgie ye Kis gug a in June vig 
my friend Mr. W. Hewet nf et, 3 York, mate occasio! 
it is somewhat unusual for t this common Southern-English migrant to 
a ertiea locality as Spurn Head in the noone ‘sani —E. G. POTtets 
rescent, t Vork, Mash 18th, ies 
line Clutch of Eggs of the Sparrow Hawk.—Whilst rambling 
a wood not far from York on May 21st, 1 06: I espied a large nest of i 
on the over-hanging branch of a large fir tree, about 30 feet from the gr 
parallel with it. Being well acquainted with Sparrow Hawks’ pre: 
: : : su 
eggs of the Sparrow Hawk (4c in. et nisits). I do not think such a ee 
has previously been recorded, and I believe it has always been pnders 
v4 Fe 
it was sie an two feet in iameter ; sal it would appear the 
made provision for a large family. The nest was anne 
i Hiwis themselves, pe certainly no one had pre bed 
- Porrer, 14, Bootham Crescent, York, “March 18th, 
