Various Notes. 
NOTES—ORNITHOLOGY. oe 
Tameness of Robins. —This is pion Sut It hia I ppt had it 
brought so forcibly before my notice as was the case recen I have been 
staying for some time at Eas sington, in Hoteereney and in the tier of the 
s in the © 
hedge at e bottom of the g: garden they followed Mr. Loten about all 
over; one pedi er y would perch tye his boot when he stood still, an when Gg 
«i said ‘ Whistle, Bobbie,’ it would put its head on one side and begin to — 
When : : 
bird I noticed how quickly the red breast appears, first there was one little 
red a re in a few days the ae hace! was obtained.—_OxLEY GRABHAM, 
M.A., M.B.O.U., York, 7th Oct r 1898. 
The Kingfisher at Huddersfield.—-It will be remembered that in 
shied Naturalist for January last (p. 10) I recorded the occurrence, on 
of a Kingfisher (Adcedo ispida) on the ponds in the _ 
Crostand ‘Hall cade To my regret that bird seemed to depart at once, — 
not beet n here again until 18th sci st of “ge year, when I caught 
a ie gnod sight of it (or another) on the e pon From that. ACH until 
13th Septem os it evidently never left the i eirerne vicinity of t onds, 
as I constantly saw it flying over the larger of the two, and Soda indeed, 
almost at any time disturb it from the low branch of a tree which quite 
overhangs the pond, a which it had apparently chosen as its resting or 
hunting perch. After 13th September I looked for it in vai since 
then a Kingfisher has been observed on the Meltham Mills reservoir, abou 
a mile anda half from here. Unless all the three occurrences r o the — 
same specimen, which I think is most soar as this ita heprts is of more, 7 
frequent occurrence in this district than was supposed. | e King ae ve 
to be a wanderer from pond to pond i It 
n id : : aes 
would, too, be were to know where it spent the nesting season, nh if, ee 
it f found a mate,—G. T. Porritt, Crosland Hall, Huddersfield, 4th Nov. 1898. 
el i 
NOTE.-FLOWERING PLANTS. 
Sow aa dcop en near Wi m $2 
ashi estmo ee 
: Storrs, to ae a re ard, is the boundary bawes n these counties, and AG a: 
a bad one to w. All the eriicyeia of the. district know where it 15 _ 
and will on on being asked. | must apologise to Mr. Tuckwell for abe os io 
_ in this manner, but, as it is, the ss is useless. 0: 
o ask from visitors sagt the d oat ane botani. ise, that if 
oc. eac: 
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of 
T.]), and I ne [Orn 
book, certainly, and if large 
mistakes i in ita aches and save time. — 
1808. 
