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NOTE—ORNITHOLOG Y. 
orm.—The late severe Sag ther has caused the Grouse 
sea to leave the moors by hundr nuary 2Ist, 
q antities Wade appearance on the HikGgate "Corporation Farm, about t 
outbuildings and in the fields, appearing quite tame. M fields along 
Sk e€ noticed to have numbers a“ ouse about in 
Eg several | tar lots were seen on Harlow Moor and Birk Crag. In 
idderdale they rae geen hers into the lower parts, and about Dacre 
Banks especia lly, a lot have bee he deep snow frozen hard upon the cap 
effectually — birds getting “ Saag a food. Not since 1886 hav 
the bi n fi In the centre er 
ag te Blackbids Redwing, Pialeecee, Caecntnrh ad, etc., have been seen 
s and Ae of the houses in search of food.—R. For RTUNE, 
Fiarogute, (hie 25th 
NOTE—ALG. 
ional List of Diatoms found at Cusworth, near Doncaster.— 
Little or no systema’ ree work has been done by the y orkshive Micro -Zoology and 
Micro- ap any Committee since the last annual meeting. en done is 
of a local character, Sidertaken i oombe and Gaul pe ne weet 
to investiga in of diatomaceous gatherings at Cusworth, near this tow 
d:— 
following is a provisional list of Diatoms foun 
ampylodiscus costatus. Meridion circulare. 
ulus, 
Cocconeis pedic avicula ovalis. 
Cocconema cymbiforme Nitzschia sigmoidea. 
See ta cistula. Nitzschia tenuis. 
nema lanceolatum. Odontidium harrisonii. 
Cyclotells kutzingiana. Odontidium mutabile 
Cymatopleura elliptica. Pinnularia gracilis 
Cymatopleu lea, Pinnularia oblong. 
Cymbella cuspidata. Pinnularia viridi 
Cymbella ehrenbergii Pinnularia viridula 
Denticula tenuis (?) Pinnulari — 
Diato Igare. Pleurosigma attenuatum 
i t Pleurosigma penacel (2). 
Himantidium undulatum. 
Stauroneis Sos spn 
Surirella bise 
Seeded sadneee 6). 
Melicerta ringens is also plentiful, and Brachionus rubens,—M. Hi. STILES, 
Doncaster, Oct. 11th, 1894. 
‘NOTES AND NEWS. 
a recent meeting of the Dublin Brrr Field Club, G. 
Carpenter ae a a ah Lair ae in the Janta mber of the Irish ‘Naturalist 
s found i Mitchel Cava® Co. Cork). Besides 
j ich e 
Museum, Dublin). It seems almost certain that our British caves must possess 
some members of the peculiar subterranean fauna so abundant in Austrian and 
rth American cave 
Naturalist, 
