West Ayton, Yorkshire, 4th Octo 
Newember 1898. 
Hey: A Benevolent Sparrow. 333. 
Chara vulgaris (L.?). 
1884. J. of B. North Lancashire, 1865, W. P. Hiern. 
QuerRy.—-Where did he find it ? 
EXCLUDED SPECIES. 
Dryopteris fol. minutim incisis Merrett. 
1666. Merrett, Pinax, 34. On the rocks of the ‘fells, three 
miles from Hawkshead, Lancashire: as anew British 
plant by Merrett, but by llected—his own son or | 
Willisel—he does not state. Record repeated in 1667 issue 
of Pinax, 34. Placed by Dillenius, in his edition of Ray's 
Synopsis, Be amongst the ‘Plantarum dubitarum.’ What is it 
—if know 
It is intended, after a while, to follow these papers by a list of 
omissions, additions, and corrections, for several books have 
turned up since the beginning in 1894. Where possible, the 
records of ‘Bot. Record Club Reports’ will be included, but 
they are so very difficult to follow that I scarcely know how 
to treat them. There is no reason why, for comital botany, 
Watson’s Area 69 should be taken as a whole, and the 
records! JI, at this time of day, dare not do the same, or 
others either, I fancy. But, as Hazlitt said on another matter, 
I have done what I could.’ 
At the close of these papers I have to thank my readers and 
Our editor, the latter always alert, and the former, as I can 
prove, sometimes critical. Still, even now, there are no thanks 
to be rendered except to the gentlemen mentioned in the first 
aper, and ew correspondents wot subscribers to ‘The 
Naturalist.’ Won't the latter help me? [And may we -not | 
ask the ‘few correspondents’ to help ‘The Naturalist.’—Ep.] _ 
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NOTE—BIRDS. 
A Benevolent Sparrow.—A few days ago | witnessed a pretty act of 
Passerine charity. All summer a Sparrow (Passer domesticus) with 
crippled wing has haunted my yar On several occasions, whe king 
up crumbs, it has nearly fallen a victim to a ca , as it has great 
di y in taking to flight. day last w I g some broken 
iscuits out of k door, and presently after observed this Sparrow 
sittin the lowest branch of a pear tree and wistfully eyeing the tempting 
rsels esently another Sparrow alighted, and, selectin large frag- 
, up with it he pear tree. Then moving up close to the crippled 
bird, it held the biscuit to its bill while it f dom pretti 
, ‘ 
; t in nature than these two little anes sitting together among the ripen- 
ng agate in the happy autumn een one feeding the other. —W. C. Hey, 
er 1808. 
