352 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
= po: scammer sath 
Acanthocinus zdilis at Doncaster.—I had a fine living specimen of this 
beetle hot me to-day by a friend. It “ietien i his hand while at work.— 
A. oe N, 45, Cemetery Road, Doncaster, Sep 
ent Occurs ence isi — zotrogus sinnisini in Yorkshire.—A short 
ee pha hay en , handed t 
adie wing Oa Malton, in Fly of the present year. proved to be Rhtzotrogus 
solstitialis L., a well-known insect in some of the at aah counties of England, 
but most unusual faite: sitih An sikaatie instance of the recent cocina 
species in Yorkshire is worthy of note, the locality being so far from its 
rmal area of distribution ts “the British Islands. —M. Lawson THOMPSON, 
Saltburn- -by-the Sea, October 13th, ale 
NOTES—ORNITHOLOG Y. 
Pectoral Sandpiper Spurn.—A very fine adult male of 7ringa 
ag ace M ieill, in summer py was shot by a coastguard on September 28th 
at Easington, H older 2 ess, from a a pond on the fitties at the Humber side. It was 
the autumn than is generally supposed, easily escaping observation when 1D 
company with Dunlin or other small waders.—Joun CorpDEAUX, Great Cotes 
Ee : 7 
trel and Lon — Owl breeding in close proximity t each 
other.— Whilst in a wood on April 29th last, in the neighbourhood of siecal 
Common, I saw a Kestrel ( 7 tnnunculus tinnun neulus) leave a nest a the top of 
a tee Scotch Fir so and. on climbin ng t to I found it was a et aa nest of the 
e (Pica pica) in a very good state of preservation, probably having been 
built the previous year, — — Stee ple e and the present occupier having 
h e in the usual Magpie-fashion. The nest contained 
tt 
four beautiful Kestrel’s Big n an adjoining ase also a Scotch Fir, there wa 
eter nest not more than three yards from the Kestrel’s. When up at the latter 
could n - 
but seeing a lot of bird excrement on the branches below I was as tempted to climb 
to that nest also, to satisfy my curiosity, when I found ella three young Long: 
eared Owls (Asie ofus) and one addled egg. Two of the young ones appeare me 
be about a emer older than the other. —E. G. Porter, 14, Bootham Crescent, 
York, Oct. 11th, 7 
NOTE—F = Gl. 
The British Mycological Soci ciety at herwood Forest.—The firs st annual 
meeting of this society was hel stg Notts, from eae er eee to 17! 
last, excursions being made aint ae to some portion of the Sher ocd ro 
district. Among the place mes “a Welbeck Park, Budby Carr and Leese 
Park, Cl tas tah wey the Birklands. Many interesting Fungi were © observe’ 
a considerable mete not hitherto recorded for N Nottinghamshi ‘ch 
the Britis 
y po resel 
characterised by the hirsute margin of the gills, which may be observed even by 
ae po eye. It was discovered in Budby Carr. ae —— spec! 
fou as Amanita recutita, which occurred in some abund —_— er age 
ck prs “Birk ds. According to Mr. Rea this is not recor ge for 
British Fungi, although it has nown to Dr. C. B. ight a 
Plow 
many years. It ‘belongs to the Phalloidez grou p of Amanita, but is characterised 
by the dry pileus, silky stem, and distant ring.’ ene 
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