NOTES—ORNITHOLOGY. 79 
characteristic boulders. But at Elland they may be seen exposed 
in the banks of the Calder and good specimens obtained, and they 
are frequently met with in sinking wells and in making excavations 
near the Calder from Elland down to Dewsbury and Wakefield 
The following section was exposed in sinking for the foundations 
for the piers of the railway arch across the river Calder at No 
Dean. 
ft. ins, 
Soi 3 ay ae a iu ae si. ra Te son Kd 
a Sas: a ve yids Shue 
Gravel, a ese of loesi hindi toe 2 0 
“ggasi of local rocks with a re percentage my foreign 
ocks, granite, syenite, traps, ¥ 
No Weider reached, the foundutlond e: ‘ihe thes bas taid on this bed. 
The majority of the boulders were well rounded, thus indicating 
that they had been worn by being knocked against each other in the 
river. bre are smooth, and no striz or scratches were visible on 
any of t 
The gen ibe character and order of succession of these Glacial 
deposits in Calderdale, appears to be (1) surface soil, (2) a thick bed 
of sand with clay lower down the river, (3) gravel with boulders of 
local rocks, (4) gravel with local boulders, mixed with a large 
percentage of boulders of granite, syenite, quartzite, basalt, trap, 
volcanic ash, etc., which as a rule seem to repose upon the solid 
rocks at the bottom of the valley. 
Boulders of the following characteristic rocks occur in the valley 
of the Calder 
St. John’s Vale quartz-felsite Micaceous trap, 
Buttermere mi ee eee Volcanic ash, 
eR granl _Amygdaloidal trap, 
Syen Eycott Hill basalt 
rastdale granite, Quartzite, and quartz rock, 
Criffel granite, Felspar-porphyry, etc., 
Basalt, Limestone and Chert. 
Most of these rocks appear to have come from the western side 
of the Lake District, but some have. been derived like the Criffel 
granite from Scotland. 
NOTES—ORNITHOLOG Y. 
Spotted Crake a on.—An immature pe “ the nesses 
Crake (Porzana maruetta), dang ae near Otterington, 1891, and is 
now in my possession.—WM. HEWETT TT, 12, Howard Street, York, feb. 18th, ti 
Bittern near tigre —A fine female specimen of the Bittern (Botauru 
stellaris), was cas Little Driffield on <5 ies ine uary, 1893.—WM. HEwe: rt, 
» Howard creo Gans Feb. 18th, 1 
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