MISCELLANEA. I03: 



two occasions— once at Rockcliflfe on the north shore of the 

 Solway, and once at Runswick on the Yorkshire coast. 

 Though neither of these places are actually in our district, 

 they are near enough to make the captures specially interest- 

 ing, observations of the group in British seas being apparently 

 very scanty. The only British record known to me is that of 

 Professor Marcus Hartog in Vol. II. of the Cambridge 

 Natural History, where he figures a specimen taken at 

 Worthing, and notes the "British Channel" as a habitat. 

 The species figured by Hartog is, however, not identical with 

 either of those taken by me. The Runswick specimens 

 were got during a short afternoon's dredging just outside 

 the bay in a depth of 4-6 fathoms on a bottom of rather 

 muddy sand, the chief animal constituents of the gathering 

 being Cumacea and Entomostraca. It was not, indeed, until 

 a few months ago, on a renewed examination of the haul that 

 I detected the Echinoderes, of which there were five or six 

 examples. The species is, I believe, E. pellucidus^ Reinhard. 

 The RockclifFe specimen, a single one, seems to belong to 

 another species which I cannot at present name. 



It would be well that zoologists should keep a good look 

 out for these animals. I feel sure that I have seen them on 

 other occasions and have passed them by. Their paucity of 

 numbers and very minute size — about one-thirtieth of an 

 inch — of course render this easy. — G. S. Brady, Feb. 20th, 

 igo2. 



Local Notes on Birds, igoi-02. — The later stragglers of a 

 number of species of summer migrants were more numerous, 

 or at any rate more conspicuous, in the autumn of 190 1 than 

 usual. Thus Whitethroats, Whinchats, and Redstarts were 

 to be seen in this district up to the second week in September ; 

 and the occurrence of a Wheatear as late as October 4th is 

 worth recording. This bird was seen several times that after- 

 noon by Mr. Thomas Brady and myself along the coast 

 between South Shields and Marsden. 



Other noteworthy occurrences in the autumn were the 



