206 MR. B. AMSDEN'S REPORT OF 



The party started next morning from Kirknewton Station, via 

 the College Burn and Heathpool to the Henhole on the 

 western shoulder of Cheviot, obtaining a magnificent view 

 from the summit and descending by way of Langleeford. Next 

 day, notwithstanding the heavy rain, the party ascended 

 Yeavering Bell, and during a temporary lull beheld the plain 

 of Flodden and the valley of the Till spread out to view, then 

 descending over the edge of Tom Tallon's Cliff by way of 

 Gleascleugh and Akeld to Wooler. One day was to have been 

 devoted to climbing Hedgehope, but the rain prevented this ; 

 and another visit was made to the College Burn and the Bizzle, 

 another of Cheviots' gorges, returning by the Lambden and 

 Carey Burns now swollen by two days' rain. Another day 

 was spent, by the courtesy of Mr. G. P. Hughes, at Middleton 

 Hall, in examining his varied collection of coniferous trees, and 

 of horns and antlers discovered in draining the neighbouring 

 bog. A list of the flora and fauna observed during a most 

 interesting outing is subjoined : — 



July 21st. — Weetwood Moor: — 

 Grasshopper warbler. 

 Wooler : Great celandine. 



July 22nd. — College Burn and Cheviot : — 



Wood geranium, musk mallow, dove's-foot cranesbill, 

 great mullein, foxglove (red and white), annual knawel, 

 bog asphodel, mossy saxifrage (not in bloom), starry 

 saxifrage, wild thyme, maiden pink, cloudberry (in fruit), 

 scorpion-grass, bilberry, crowberry, white heather, ling, 

 fine-leafed heath, cross-leafed heath, dyer's rocket, 

 mimulus. 



Raven (not hatched young this year, two pairs Henhole), 

 carrion crow, heron, golden plover, curlew, sandpiper, 

 dipper, ring ousel, wheatear, whinchat, blackcock, 

 peregrine (hatched in Bizzle). 



July 23rd. — Yeavering Bell and Akeld : — 

 Heron, kestrel, stonechat, whinchat. 

 Pennycress (in fruit), white stonecrop, yellow stonecrop. 



