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in some of the wilder portions of the York- 

 shire moors and Scotch hill districts, fre- 

 quenting the bold mountain streamlets, 

 where ii hunts as described for the ova of 

 fish, especially of the salmon." 



Perca fluviatilis and Leuciscus ruti- 

 Lus. — Young fish of perch and roach from 

 this year's spawn have been seen this week 

 sporting upon the top of the water in the 

 Lord Hayer Branch of the Birmingham 

 Canal, situate between Bloxwich and Wyr- 

 ley. The spawning time occurred last year 

 about the middle of March. 



FOSSIL HUNTING AT 

 WHITBY. 



During my holidays about a fortnight ago, 

 three of us set out, equipped with hammer, 

 chisels, and a good sized bag, for the purpose 

 of fossil-hunting. We intended to walk to 

 and from Saltwick, a place about two miles 

 to the South of Whitby, on the Scaur, but 

 as the tide was flowing at the time, we were 

 only able to go one way, and had to come back 

 on the top of the clifls. The Lias formation 

 extends the whole length between Whitby 

 and Saltwick, but is only visible to any 

 extent at the two extremities. About mid- 

 way the Sandstone is shewn to advantage ; 

 here ferns are very numerous, but only one 

 species. The first few hundred yards of the 

 shaly rock were paved with Ammonites Com- 

 munis, after geting a sufl&cient quantity of 

 these we turned our attention to the sides of 

 the cliff where we found Nucula ovum in 

 abundance, together with a few perfect 

 specimens o{A . Hildensis. Between here and 

 the Sandstone beds Gryphia incuna were 

 scattered about the shore in large quantities. 

 After spending a little time among these, 

 we made our way to the Sandstone, here 

 ■we found Calamites or Eqnisctum and a very 

 pretty fern. As the tide was now flowing 

 fast, we made the best of our way to Salt- 

 wick, for at this place we could easily ascend 

 the cliff by means of some dilapidated steps. 



On what is called the nab, at Saltwick, we 

 found Bclemnites tubular is or vulgaris, B. elon- 

 gatus, A. Youngi, and a few specimens of 

 jet, we then climbed up to the Sandstone 

 again, where we found more ferns, and a 

 kind of grass Cycaditis lancelatus and Solenites 

 Miirrayana. 



Should any reader of the " Young Natura- 

 list " wish for any of the following, I shall 

 send them as far as my duplicates allow : — 

 Ammonites communis, Belemnites vulgaris, 

 Sobnites, Murrayana, CycaditiSt lanccolatus, 

 Gryphea incurva, and A . Hildensis. — J. A.Tate. 



FIELD CLUBS. 



On Saturday, the first ramble of the year 

 of the " Bradford Frizinghall Union Jack 

 Field Club, was taken on January 28th, to 

 Shipley Glen, seven of our number taking 

 part in it. Amongst the specimens obtained 

 were the following, viz : — Plants in flower — 

 Poa annua, Potcntella fragariastrum , Senccio 

 Vulgaris, Mercurialis pcrcnnis, and Stellaria 

 media. Plants about to bloom — Cryso- 

 splenium oppositifolium. Ranunculus ficaria. 

 Anemone ncmorosa, zxid Corylus avcllana; also 

 about a dozen species of Fungi, and a few 

 ' lichens and mosses. The Entomologists 

 I found the following, viz. — Hibernia leuco- 

 j phearia and Phigalia pilosaria, 2 Crysalides 

 and 2 beetles. The Conchological specimens 

 are as follows, viz. — Helix rotundata, Vitrina 

 pellucida, Zonites crystahnus. We left the Glen 

 about about a quarter to six, after spending 

 a very pleasant afternoon. — H, J. Riley. 



THE BIRMINGHAM & MIDLAND 

 COUNTIES YOUNG NATURALIST 

 FIELD CLUB. 



A meeting of the above Club was held on 

 Monday, 30th Jan., 1882, in Birmingham. 

 The President, W. H. Bath, Esq., H.M.B. 

 M.N.C., advised to change the name of 

 the Club and it was agreed in future to 

 call it " The Birmingham and Midland 

 Counties Naturalists Field Club." Several 



