208 NOTES AND NEWS. 
records eight Terns, seven Gulls, and three Skuas, but the evidence, 
as the author admits, in connection with the occurrences of the 
Roseate Tern, the Pomatorhine and Buffon’s Skuas, is anything but 
satisfactory. 
The Great Northern and the Red-throated Divers have both been 
seen or obtained on several occasions, and all the five Grebes are 
included in Mr. Whitlock’s list from the Trent. There is one 
Petrels and Stormy Petrels have been obtained. The Manx Shear- 
water has so frequently occurred, both in Derbyshire and Nottingham- 
shire, that its presence is suggestive of an overland route of migration 
followed by this species along the course of the river. 
The volume contains an excellent map and the illustrations 
of Derbyshire scenery add much to the interest of the work. 
Mr. Whitlock, with the assistance of his colleague, Mr. A. 
Hutchinson, whose notes are a mee with the text, hiss 
succeeded in collecting and recording a great amount of local 
information on birds, with the result that ie material has been 
dealt with thoroughly well and in a most conscientious and 
painstaking manner. The volume is, we consider, a valuable 
addition to the growing list of county faunas, which will be referred 
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see that our old friend Mr. George Massee, the author of the ‘British 
Fungus Flora,’ has received the > econ at the Royal Herbarium at Kew 
which Dr. Cooke vacated some time 
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The Sages agente one-inch * maps of the Se gee Survey include quarter- 
sheet -» embodying much intricate work in the northern part of the 
Skiddaw bias ae the succeeding Volcanic Series belween npn Fell and 
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Lincolnshire and bigs poe Mr. T. Roberts on the Upper Jurassi incolnshire, 
and Messrs. Wilson and Tate on the Durham sate district. The Pelienanic rocks 
are reserved for peas’ notice. 
Naturalist, 
