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NOTE—ORNITHOLOG Y. 
Great Skua at Scarbor enh —In reply to Mr. ier J. Clarke’s va: in 
ua 
where w it in t h.— JOHNSON WILKINSON, M.B.O.U., St. George’s 
Square, Huddersfield, gs Ist, 1895. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
*Poynbee Natural History Society, from the Toynbee Hall, London, 7 
a fortaighe at the beginning of August under tents in Uppe 1 Te esdale, and a 
account is given in ‘ ‘The Toynbee Record’ of October, pp. - 9. e scl ientific 
results do not seem to have beagas very great, but the expedition was a mos' 
enjoyable (and much enjoyed) on 
“Geography ’ is — brief title of _the se ere in the Manchester 
G replacing pecdines formerly 
sued. No. 1 of ‘G Geogra aphy’ is dated 30th September. ore tents are somewh 
disa appointing, — merely of a syllabus of the Society’s ie session, 
a children’s page, e 
From Mr. Percy H. Grimshaw, F.E. ES, e have received his remarkably 
interesting ae oh reprinted fro m the Annals "et ‘Scottish Natural ng for fhe 
last,—‘ On the Occurrence in Roe alive of Cephenomyia rufibarbis, a nev 
Bot-fly peg on the Re eer ’—a detailed account of the ite. history 2 
observed ae Germ rireey Austrian naturalists being added to the record of the 
occurrence: 
where it is stated to have lived with th enaes Holm for upwards 
f thirty years, is the subject of a mee BE bn in ri edings of 
the Royal Physical cto of Edinburgh, vol. 13, which lies before u -3 Ey. 
of excellent process-plates, one sd gt ene the bird itself after it was 
set up, and the oe od Stacks of Mygge oe were its haunt, ihe latter 
from one of Mr. exquisite photograp 
at Rel Vee “Zostobiest | l gas nend Manchester. | — mm By Fran k Ro oper. =) 
Manchester : | Abel Heywood & Son, 56 and 58, Oldham Street sis sufficient to 
show the nature of its contents. It may, however, be added that the price e is 6d., 
d that ig dated 
four very | ies P see fn s of the curious animal, iid one of his keeper, an¢ 
the narrative is a: interesting record of what may be done in the careful training 
of an imperfect intalibpenice. 
It is a long Hb since hoe have seen any of the singe caooioaat - the Nottingham 
Naturalists’ Society. We therefore welcome the of their Annual 
Report and Tisaectlin for 1894, w ich includes Pe tina all of them (we 
r € 
Mr. A. T. Metcalfe, F.G.S., describes ‘ The Gypsum Deposits of Nottinghamshire 
- pd rae Mr, J. Shipman ‘ The Coal Measures of the Leen Valley, Si 
d | 
es only the additions in Prot y he apo list By Mr. F abet. the be, Natur it 
th portraits of two is them. ——_ 
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