Reports of 



salis, the bloom seems washed from 

 their wings. The young birds of 

 different species of migrants are 

 beginning to come off their nests 

 now ; young stone curlews {Adicne- 

 mus crepitans) are as large as 

 thrushes, and can run nearly as 

 fast as the old birds ; young chim- 

 ney swallows (Hwmido rustica) I 

 first saw flying about on July 14th, 

 young pied wagtails (Motacilla alba ) 

 were about our ponds on the 15th, 

 and on the 16th young spotted fly- 

 catchers (Muscicapa griseola) were 

 perching on the rails and posts at 

 the lower part of this village. — 

 Anthony S. Bradby. 



Preston Candover, 



Basingstoke, Hants. 



[Our own experience, in this and 

 other parts of the country, is, 

 that we have not had so good a 

 season for lepidoptera for several 

 years. — Eds. Nat] 



L. QUADRA AT YoRK. — I had the 

 good fortune to take a specimen of 

 this fine species in Askham bog, on 

 Friday evening, July 23rd. It was 

 flying gently at dusk, and was in 

 splendid condition. This is the 

 first specimen taken at York, and 

 is a good addition to our local 

 fauna. — Wm. Prest, Holgate Road, 

 York. — [It will be noticed, from 

 the Huddersfield Naturalists' So- 

 ciety's Report, thst Mr. Brook has 

 also taken this species, at Redcar, 

 quite recently. It thus seems to 

 be gradually coming northward. — 

 Eds. Nat ] 



S. CoNVOLVUTi. — Yesterday I had 

 a specimen of this fine species 

 brought to me. It was found at 



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rest on the Cemetery Road, and 

 to-day another was taken to Mr. 

 Jackson, found at rest in Bucking- 

 ham Street, near the centre of the 

 city. From the early appearance 

 of this species, we may have a 

 Convolmdi year, and entomologists 

 had better be on the look-out. — 

 Wm. Prest. 

 August 10th, 1875. 



E. ALBiPUNCTATA. — I have been of 

 opinion some years that this species 

 was double-brooded, from the fact 

 that in York we have always had 

 the imagos before the end of April. 

 In the middle of last June, when 

 at Cawood Wood, I took four larvae 

 on AnthHscus sylvestriSf which I at 

 once saw were alhipunctata, and 

 from them I have, during the last 

 week, bred three imagos ; there is 

 not much difference from the 

 spring brood, except that they 

 are very much smaller, and not 

 quite so dark in colour. — Wm. 

 Prest. 

 August 9th, 1875. 



Heckmondwike Naturalists' 

 Society. — A meeting of the Society 

 was held on Saturday evening, June 

 26th, T. B. Oldfield, Esq., in the 

 chair. Mr. Joseph Tindall, of 

 Huddersfield, read a paper on the 

 " Nebular Theory of the Origin of 

 the Earth," after which a short 

 discussion followed. There were 

 upwards of thirty specimens of 

 botany on the table ; a number of 

 entomological and ornithological 

 specimens were also exhibited by 



