so 
eee eran aE Oe ¥, 
Flamborough Bird-Not nce last sertting (January 12th, 1893) we have 
= a great rush of F ceo Fars Bags: _I do not remember the time when 
I 
en alon 
(Adergus serrator) by one * our fishermen, havin en picked up at sea while 
attending to the fishing lines. -MATTHEW BaILEy, Flamborough, Feb. 1 th Sia 
Great Northe Diver at Wor! agg range 
bird had been noticed in the Solway, in the neighbourhood of ‘Workington and 
the mouth of the Derwent, Nani — bird —— 7 be haun shore, were 
unable to recognise. More attempts e ha onda os capture the 
unknown feathered visitor. Shots had og fired erm sng an it being a difficult 
bird to kill, in consequence of a habit of swimming wit only its head exp 
of the water. 
es the 
pellet through its head. The proved to a fine specimen of the Great 
Northern Diver ( Colpabus glacial a — sphhaaly of the first year, as the 
plumage, though very fine, w ants t ite bands round the upper and lower 
H 
purpurea), which he shot some years ago, when flying overhead in the dusk of 
ning, the semua belonging to one of the local iron furnaces. 
epee A.L.S., Workington, Feb. roth, 1893. 
pei: aE NEWS. 
the June 1892 issue of the ‘Jou f Botany,’ Mr. George Massee has a 
oo on ‘ Some West Indian F mag, "iIluetrated by three coloured plates, 
We have received from Messrs. Swan Sonnenschein & Co., a copy of their 
prevent. epee d nig in which Mr. Frank E. Beddard, M.A., F.R.S.E., treats 
of ‘ oO i 
e 
that relating Ka vet at i ies What the author alludes to on page 44, 
where he writes of pati collaris having a red woe init ce or even demon 
yellow we nie pretend to say, but certainly we fail to why Dr. Gadow 
should be saddled with such a statement. Whatever ber se may h been 
ought of by d i b 
e art 8. 
subject arrangement of the book, with its four beautifully coleetek. ee will, we 
ake i popular one, and for reference the list of authors’ names 
is most convenient. 
Naturalist, 
