‘ oe 10 Notes—Geology and Ornithology. 
i which is. liberally dusted and Gipirenex with .ferruginous 
. matter. 
wee On the whole, we think our researches have helped us to 
ae detect in Patterdale three different varieties of igneous rocks : 
. (1) the lava strictly so-called, which is undoubtedly andesitic ; 
(2) a lava with petrographical features obscure and of difficult — 
diagnosis ; (3) volcanic ash. It was the confounding, through 
hasty and defective observation, of the second with the third of 
these varieties that has led the State surveyors to erroneously 
conclude in a general way that the ash deposits form the bulk of 
the volcanic rocks of the lake district. 
Oct. 1st, 1897. 
NOTE ORNITHOLOGY. 
Kingfisher, etc., near Huddersfield.— Last Thur: sday, December 2 ard, 
I was very pleased to see a Kingfisher (Alcedo ispida) about the pond: 
_ in the grounds here. J am told the bird visited the same pores years 
ago, but I had never before seen one in the district. Tw 
sheers (Phasianus colchicus), both sexes, doubtless strayed pd he 
uring wood ein the 
Gand n, an a we Frequettly see them wa Iking about and peacchiog for food 
quite close to use, like barn-door poultry.—Gro, T. PoORRITT, 
Crosland Hall, Hiuddersteld, Dec. 30th, 1897. 
NOTE-—GEOLOGY. 
_ Erratic Boulders in Lincoins olen gs was pleased to see a note 
the December ‘ Naturalist from Mr. F. M. Burton, of Gainsborough, alae 
tive to these boulders. His words of caution are very opportune, both with 
regard to Yorkshire and inentnstire: The danger pe gravid tind pie nea be! 
tei etc., in our boulder lists is velapeaet the crauiede i r port 
rways, but our ae in this of Yorkshire Maiches that gr 
sma care must also be taken to fash the same error in the inla nt 
istri 
A. 
i btedly — 
figured in ou report, had the investigator not accidentally learnt, 
from an oie villager (probably the only man who knew the facts), that the 
stones were brought from ‘foreign darts ' By the late Mr, at least Atty 
years before. i 
a oO simila o me. 
“here is also a story told, for which I am not responsible, about a certai 
dated milestone in Rigor Yorkshire, which suffered still further ho a 
t ; enthusiastic glacialist, and which very narrowly 
escaped inclusion in a V1 N.U. report. 
varefully vie oye ae of our Yorkshire and Lincolnshire ‘roadside’ 
tv 
boulders are not w it m ang I ae how much more cctnyerstenne 
and im ant a me theres ined from our slay-pits, gravel-— 
Pits, excavations ihc foundations, drains, etc. For not pens is ‘possible e 
ith regard to 
error 
to the source of the boulder escaped, but See of 
: the ei beds, from which the boulders come, ca ayhs nate drecorded. 
yl os that lists in which the boulders are merely lescri Fed as sand- 
sgones, mest eA ey * (Peng ere be of Pe ieee 
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