226 -. NOTES: BOTANY: 
Common Gull. Larus canus, A few through the winter. 
*Herring Gull. Larus argentatus. A colony, not large, on 
the cliff-bound coast north of Laxey. The common Gull o 
the district and Island. 
Lesser Black-backed Gull. Larus fuscus. One or two 
frequently seen 
Kittiwake. Rissa tridactyla. I have seen a few specimens. 
Razorbill. Alca torda. Seldom seen close to the coast; no 
doubt abundant outside. 
Guillemot. Uria troile. Seldom seen close to the coast; no 
doubt abundant outside. 
*Black Guillemot. Uria grylle. Seen every spring and 
summer; probably a few still breed. : 
Little Grebe. Podicipes fluviatilis. I have seen a specimen 
caught in a salt pool in Laxey Harbour. 
There can be little doubt that in the list of Lonan birds should be 
included Asio accipitrinus, Falco esalon, Querquedula crecca, Mareca 
penelope, and other Ducks, Larus marinus, Fratercula arctica, 
Colymbus glacialts and C. septentrionalis, though they do not pe oe 
to have come under the writer’s notice. 
NOTES—BOTANY. 
New Alien pete for Lincolnshire.—Si/ene conica L. Div. 13. ria Bi 
by Fossdyke, 15.6.’97; G. A. Grierson, in County Herbarium. I 
Div. 10. Martin , by Horncastle, 1896 ; Rev. F. S. Alston, in Coanty H 
—E. A = Peosurre oe Cadney, Brigg, June 17th, 1897. 
—As the name of the 2 ig man 
Sa sempervirens se j 0; ono the, Co County 
oe The specimen taken by reo fs Lane-Claypon in Div. II, at = 
inted but not preserved.—E, A. WoopRUFFE-PEACOCK, Cadney 
tae 5th, i 
“<3 
A Rare cece. Alien.—Miss Rawnsley, of wg Hall, has Ins st re 
i thered in 
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allr. for Div. , Tothwell, by Louth, on the authority of bn frend Ms m= as 
Burtt Davy, who is on the way home “rom Callens. now to revisi ge 
his early labours once more. On June the roth, a 2 see It is = ont un- 
Mr. Sam. Hudson, gathered near Y dwesdmey in Div. 1896. K, Cadney 
common there in one locality.—E. ADRIAN WooeurFE- -PEACOCK, 
Vicarage, Brigg, June 12th, 1807, samc: 
