THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



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J. T. Doubleday, Gateshead, is thanked for 

 dipteroa from A . /si and ichneumon from 

 0. antiqua. You may always know a 

 dipterous pupa by it being alike at both 

 ends. See Y.N.. vol. i., p. Co. 



''AT HOME." 



Liverpool.— C. S. Gre^son will be at home 

 every Sunday until March next. Micro- 

 lepidopterists, coleopterists, and artists 

 should come early to secure good light ; 

 general naturalists any time from nine 

 a.m. to nine p.m. — Rose Bank. Fletcher 

 Grove Edge Lane, Liverpool. 



HuDDERSFiELD — S. L. Moslcy cvcry Sat- 

 urday afternoon, 



ASSISTANT NATURALISTS. 



J i'. SoUTTEK. Clyde Terrace, Bishop 

 \uckland. All branches of Botany e.\- 

 j)t microscopic. 



A. Tate, 6i, Merlm Street, Liverpool. 

 !iabitants of the Atjuarium, Tcrrnriiim. 

 .1 Vivarium. 

 >h:ill be - f a l iiti.-:; : ; .. .u ^ 



EXCHANGE. 



Duplicates.— /m/M»'d, Chenopodii, Testacea, 

 Testata, Gamma, Sylvanus, Adonis, Corydon, 

 AUxis, Zanthographa, Tragopogonis, Pinastri. 

 Desiderata. — Editsa,Cardui. Gcryon, Statices 

 various Cuspidates, Derasa, Batis, and many 

 others. — E. E. Browne, 30, Upper Park 

 Street, East Greenwich. 



NOTES, CAPTURES, 6cc, 



House Martin in November. -On Thurs- 

 day last, the 24th November, a house martin 

 wasseenat Dovercourt. It was flying S.S.W. 

 and was evidently migrating, as it continued 

 flying in that direction as far as the eye 

 could follow it, frequently turning and 

 snapping at some insect as it crossed its 



path. I may mention that this is the 

 direction all the swallows and martins take 

 when leaving this neighbourhood. A single 

 house martin was also seen on the 29th Nov- 

 ember. It was flying in the same direction 

 as the one seen on the 24th. 



Fecundity of the Common Mouse 

 (Mus musculus). — On the 2nd inst., whilst a 

 wheat stack was being threshed, the work- 

 men came upon a nest containing twenty- 

 eight young mice, all of them the same size, 

 and bUnd, so that they must have been 

 placed there by their mother or mothers. — 



Thrushes Eggs in December. —On the 

 nth inst. a Song Thrush's nest containing 

 two eggs was found, showing how mild this 

 winter is. — F. Kerry, Harwich. 



Mildness of the Season.— A ChifTchafT 

 (Sylvia rufd) was seen at Astwood Bank, 

 near a pool, on the loth December. Is not 

 this rather unusual ? 



A nest of the Hedge Sparrow {Accentor 

 modularis) containing four newly laid eggs 

 (on which one of the birds was sitting) was 

 found in the hedge of a garden at Hampton, 

 in Arden, on the i6th December. 



I have seen no female chaflinches {Frin- 

 gilla cieUbs) since the end of October, when 

 I shot one, although they were more plenti- 

 ful than the males till that date. Do the 

 females migrate at all 



I caught two Lymnea stagnalis and one 

 L. limosa in a pond at Selly Oak, near here, 

 on the ibth December. --Geo. F. Wheeldon, 

 6, Newhall Street, Birmingham. 



P. Populi at Derby. — On December 3rd 

 I captured a male of this species in a shop 

 window, and on the 5th I had another 

 brought me, both taken in the middle of the 

 town, attracted by the light I suppose. — G. 

 Pullen, Free Library and Museum, Derby. 



Stormy Petrels at Carnforth. — Dur- 

 ing the storms of the last week in November 

 there were flying about here a great many 



