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ramosum, branched bur-reed ; (2) Potamogeton rufescens, red 

 pondweed ; (3) P. densus, close-leaved pondweed ; (4) Anacharis 

 alsinastrum, water-thyme ; (5) Slum angustifolium, water-parsnip ; 

 (6) Hippuris vulgaris, marestail; (7) Equisetum arvense, barren 

 stem of common horsetail; (8) Fontinalis antipyretica, great 

 water-moss. These were most kindly identified for me by Mr. M. 

 B. Slater, F.L.S., of Malton. 



21st. — Stuffed a Whiskered Bat. 



24th. — Lying up in cover at dusk with a friend, we had seven 

 Badgers, four old and three young, playing about within forty 

 yards of us. (See the ' Field,' Feb. 3rd, 1900, for full account 

 of the Badger in Yorkshire.) Would have given much to have 

 been able to photograph them, but the light was gone for this 



purpose. 



August. 



August was a very hot month. Grouse have done well on 

 nearly all the Yorkshire moors, and the young birds are fine and 

 strong on the wing. An Osprey was shot on the 29th near Filey. 

 Two young Dotterels at Easington, Holderness, on the 22nd. 



September. 

 September was also very hot. Partridges are plentiful. Over 

 a small farm I and a friend shot eighteen brace ; but here where 

 we used to get fifteen or twenty Hares in a day fifteen years ago, 

 now we never see one. I was over at Flamborough for a few 

 days, and far out at sea saw many Skuas, mostly Arctic Skuas. 

 An immature Sabine's Gull was shot here at the end of the 

 month. A Great Snipe was obtained at Thorntondale, and 

 another at Beverley, and near the latter place also a fine young 

 Black-tailed Godwit, and a Greenshank. Mr. Stuart, the well- 

 known birdstuffer of that town, tells me that a Wood Sandpiper 

 was shot at Aike Beck End, on the river Hull, at the beginning 

 of the month. Several Black Terns were observed off Bridling- 

 ton, and some were shot. The large spring migration of these 

 birds that has been noticed near Hemsworth for the last few 

 years was not observed this year. 



October. 

 When Pheasant-shooting on the 2nd put up a Landrail. A fine 

 Honey Buzzard was obtained near Beverley. I regret deeply 



