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strewed with stripped cones and scales. When they are 
busy tearing off these latter a slight rasping sound is 
heard. he power and skill displayed is most extraordinary, 
as any one may prove by trying to strip the scales from a fir 
cone with the fingers. No red males were seen in this 
flock, which I have no doubt were composed of birds bred 
in some of the fir woods in the locality. My son’s gardener 
says he has never observed them in previous years. On 
1oth July I saw a beautiful red male and a green female 
hanging to the end of a fir bough and rending the cones ; 
they were very tame. 
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NOTE—-MOSSES. 
Funaria aioe sae An Addition to the West Yorkshire 
Moss-Lis t.— ve spt rrect an error which occurred in my note in this 
journal last bles I ther ere stated that Funaria obtusa had not previously 
been noted for the West Riding. I should have said Funaria fascicularis 
ene ) Schi imp. Both mosses were foun —he ence the slip—but F. 
aroeate, 7th July 
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NOTES—ORNITHOLOGY. 
oe ae Thrush.—On the 28th ult., about 8.30, when it was 
account), and add the flesh of Thrushes to its aready “airy liberal diet ! 
I give the facts as I found them, and leave others to suggest and explain. 
i d rite: 
~—Probably, as a friend has suggested to me, th e Thru sh had been 
Highfield, Cabiaporoasd. ah rae 1808. 
Starling soodis a young Thrush.—This aig | my maid came to 
tell me that oe aes feeding a "Throstle n going to the kitchen 
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