114 NOTES AND NEWS. 
The White-throated Bunting has occurred twice before in Great 
Britain, once on the Aberdeenshire coast in 1867, and also more 
recently near Brighton. 
Zonotrichia leucophrys, the White-crowned Bunting, a closely 
allied species, is known to visit South Greenland sparingly in the 
spring, where it probably breeds. 
February 28th, 1893. 
NOTES ery NEWS. 
age De arse ogra of Botany’ is a notice of Mr H. Pearson’s 
an of Lejeuneee Madagas ane acewally published in as Christiania 
Vienskabs Selskabs F orbandingmty : 1892. 
» me writer Sgt ishen sh. a description and figure of a new British 
in the ‘Journal of Botany’ for September 1892, ree we Mee, 
Bots (Limp.) Spruce, which was ap on Ben Nevis by Mr. W. 
pat elections to the Fellowship of the Linnean Society have included the 
am William Whitwell, of Balham, who dur agg his residence in York- 
chive ina done good work for the botany of that county 
>t + 
esenge 5 7 go is 6 Fellowship of the Entomological Society of 
Ir. Geo. C. Dennis, of York, and Mr. William 
Lond 
Tiakewedae, of | Hoeaceh: near 
Among those recently elected to to the privileges of F.G.S. are Mr. W. Gregson, 
of Baldersby, near Thirsk, and Mr. J. W. Stather, Secretary of the Hull 
Geological Societ 
n ‘Nature’ for oes 5th, 1893, Pr Prof, a A. Herdman propounds the outline 
of a scheme for what will be a very pt series of handbooks (on the pee 
of the British Floras—brief, terse, diagnostic), of the British iyi Fauna 
Would that this was carried out in such branches as Ent tomology as 
The fi ag ibaa de pores oie ‘Wild ig me | by eg: Chapman and Walter J. Buck 
which 
(p. 249), bea ars oO ohn P. Thomasson contributed to the 
* Naturalist’ of Des. ie ne ‘One nie aweny deserves passing remark—the 
pcs small number of eggs laid in ‘the south than is the case with many of the 
e species further dosti In Spain, = of the warblers =“ only four eBe* 5 ; 
ke Blackbird, as a rule, but three, and these much b d than at hom 
Pong 
The new ih, re bon vibe pert of the WV ovkshive Geological and Polytechnic 
Society contain e brief notes by Mr. G. W. Lamplugh, F.G.S., on ‘ The 
Oy 
Flamborough Distnuge ties We fear that this will be the las st, for the 
s valuable contributions to the Glacial geology of East 
Yorkshire. Mr. ugh is now on aes aff of the Geological Survey, and is 
stationed in the ok of the Isle of Ma 
pone 
We have pleasure in calling attention to the List of ‘Plants of sie District,’ 
by our valued contributor, Mr. Lister Petty, of Ulverston, which occupies page ges 
63-66 of Atkinson’s *‘ Guide to Grange and Arnside.’ The plants are enuine ated 
under their respective natural orders, the com e ‘ 
Other matter of interest to pans in the Guide book is a chapter for anglers, 
ibe Guide itself is well illustrated, has a good map, and is calculated to be of 
value to visitors Is om 8 to which we l the publisher’s 
attention, and that is the absenc y date of publication. We trust that new 
editions, as they are successively pach Pe will be dated, and so add value to the 
book and its conten 
Naturalist, 
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