238 NOTES—ORNITHOLOGY AND BOTANY. 
NOTES—ORNITHOLOG ¥, 
Red-legged Partridge Huddersfield.—I have just had made into 
a skin a Red-legged or French Partridge (Caccadis rufa L) whi te as caught alive 
in Dale St., Longwood, on the 3oth April, het i an out of hin § place “for Partridges 
of any sort.—JOHNSON WILKINSON, Huddersfield, aly 5th, 1895. 
Great Skua at Scarborough.—I saw yesterday a very ir specimen of the 
Great Skua epeerner aries. phen which was killed off Scarborough in 
November I both these birds are worth recording. pac pee 
“WILKINSON, Haddersfeld, yuly 5th, 1895. 
the Nightjar and Buzzard in the Lake District.—Bei 
a 
of the Night-jar (Caprimulgus europeus L. ie Heving lived for some years in 
at 
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rton. It used to be heard at Brigham Hill ( Cockerwiontie but 
I cannot find that it has been observed of recent years. In ‘A Short Account 
of hie os n School,’ published privately in Ngo it is ny (p. 14) that ‘the 
nest of the Night-jar was once found with two eggs.’ I belie > pecitneds of birds 
be found in the Tullie House ¢ Collection, Carlisle, ebied were obtained in 
letcher. 
In ork just quoted (p. 15), it is stated that the Common Buzzard 
‘still nests on Ski eel as until recent years ow also the Raven and Peregrine 
Falcon.’ Climbing Hobcarten on July tst saw an unfinished nest of 
— Buzzard (Bute st beh os of Tait year’s : building (1894), which, for some 
r other, had bee mn. Had the persecuting gun of the gamekeeper 
brought the bird Fails 7 0 done the bulk of the Ravens and many other 
interesting and beautiful creatures? I am glad to learn from Mr. Robinson that he 
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the Jay (Garrulus glandarius) is almost extinct in many parts of Cumbe berland, it is 
still seen at times in the vale of Lorton.—HILpERIc FRIEND, 7, Fern Bank, 
Cockermouth, July 2nd, 1895. 
M OTES—B nae ANY. 
Turritis glabra in the Lake District.—On June gth, 1895, shortly after 
crossing the Becwen 3 én gers a biog aii ts from Cockermouth, Cumberland, 
came across a number of specimens of the Smooth onccireuaat writis pate 
L.). It was formerly reported rian Stainburn near Workington, where 1 
now extinct. I have ian it among aliens at Silloth, but Isel Bridge now stands 
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obcarten on July Ist with some friends and obtained specimens of ZLychmis 
alpina, in the old seg At the foot of va Fell the Dwarf *ilder 
Coonan: ebulus L.) was most -serigro — tion by the side of bec 
Farm.—HILDERIC view Fern Bank, Coc remain July 2nd, 1895. 
Be tes from Hebden meg scan apr e 8th, the 
M ee nhae of the Botanical Section of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union 
had a very pleasant excursion to Hebden Cs und 
rag Hycena ep oben: but several microscopic fungi were met wit 
ossland has prepared an account. Of Mosses, in addition to ty 
pas reo 2 Anon punctatum, and Philonotis fontana, barren, was fo und 
P. calcarea, male and female. Of Hepatics, Scapania undulata Dill. Es the 18 | 
bserved. A/ilium was In form in t rts oO) ? 
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