106 NOTES—-LEPIDOPTERA AND FISHES. 
were even more richly coloured on the head than in the very 
beautiful figure of this Starling given by Lord Lilford in his 
‘Illustrations of British Birds, No, xxii. In these Kilnsea 
examples, the only tinge of green about the head was on the 
auriculars, the colour of the remainder being perhaps best 
expressed as a purple-lake, with the feathers of the flanks under 
the wings a deep violet, and much richer than these parts when 
compared with the examples of the green-headed race (.S. vulgaris) 
procured in the same week. These former appear to b 
intermediate between the Common Starling and S. menzbéert, in 
which last the ear-coverts are said to be purple. 
It will be seen that the outbreak of almost arctic severity overt 
with a great rush of various species on the east coast. First we 
have Woodcock on January 4th, followed by Waxwing, Mealy 
Redpole, and an enormous inrush of Snow Bunting, old Fieldfare, 
and Blackbirds, with a few Ring-Ousels. At the same time, all 
wild fowl, as geese and duck, have been exceptionally numerous. 
March 3rd, 1893. 
Ab Coke een eh talk ERA. 
a’ ie in Yorkshire Lepidoptera, ss a meng of the Entomological 
Me hcc ae pont held February sth, a” 93, Mr.:G..T. Porr wl a two 
varieties of Arctia lubricipeda from York ; nage ive- a oh x ds spec moyX 
guercus {rom Huddersfield ; and a a Cite specimen of pean hastate 
from Wharncliffe Wood, Yorks hir 
OTE—FHISHES. 
trings confined in ap eget ent to the _—— of the Humber, 
i not a stone's throw from New Holland on the M. S. and L. railway, there 
exists a pond, some three acres in extent, which has been gecsee ‘to furnish 
clay for the neighbouring brickyard. ommunication is effected with the 
r m lew, which is so contrived that water m 
occasionally but not go The water is therefore neces y Becaee 
, but grows a coarse aquatic vegetation, which enables it to sustain animal 
life its inhabitant notice mo — “Osmer 1S pera 
Platessa flesus, and harengu. Th see 
season and are so arfed, the largest n ai n hee r an genic 
owing probably to the limited food supply of fed habitat ey rise constantly 
r flies, and are taken by rod and line, the coc e provi the mo: 
seductive lur Hull a sg ale oie alive to the novelty a capturing mies 
the Humber ove ery winter in dozens for that purpose, at whic “ay n they 
feed best. Locally they are af dine as pilchards, but th yt ck fi cad a other 
reliable distinguishing marks proclaim them to be the Tee EL Moo 
TER, Hull, Oth, Ft 
This nian as note ecalls t to mind Yarrell’s record, as quoted i n the 
ndbook of the eveckure Fai of Yorkshire,’ p. 129, of Col. Meynell, of 
jury 
pro eno abundantly. When the pond was drawn, the fishermen of the Tees 
considered that they had never seen a finer lot of Smactts, there being no loss. of 
flavour or qual rib —W.D.R. 
Naturalist 
