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Stainland Naturalists' Society. 

 — Meeting at Barwood, March 6th, 

 Mr. S. Calvert in the chair. W. H. 

 Stott read a paper on '^Summer 

 Migratory Birds." C. C. Hanson 

 exhibited " eggs of missel thrush, 

 chifF-chaff, great tit, and chaffinch. 

 The chairman exhibited flints found 

 on Greetland Moor, said to be hat- 

 chet head, scraper, slingstone, snd 

 flint flake. — Caius Cassius Hanson, 

 Hon. Sec. 



Wakefield Naturalists' So- 

 ciety. — Meeting March 16th, the 

 president, Mr. Joseph Wainwright, 

 F.L.S., in the chair. Mr. Talbot 

 exhibited a living wasp which was 

 taken at Mount Pleasant on the 

 26th of February. Mr. Henry 

 Simms reported Pieris rapce taken 

 in Southgate, Feb. I7th.— John 

 Spurling, Hon. Sec. 



York and District Field Natu- 

 ralists' Society. — Annual meeting 

 March 8th, Mr. H. R. Moiser, 

 F.G.S., in the chair. The hon. sec- 

 retary read the report of the past 

 session : — The increase of numbers 

 is steady, and the monthly meet- 

 ings have been well attended. Many 

 rare and valuable specimens of 

 natural history had been exhibited. 

 At the May meeting, the secretary, 

 on behalf of Mr. Sawyer, exhibited 

 a specimen of Eupithcecia extensaria, 

 a species new to Britain, which 

 had been named by the late Mr. 

 Henry Doubleday. The latter 

 gentleman says it is a very striking 

 and rare species, and has never 

 been captured before out of Russia, 

 it was taken by Mr. Sawyer, near 

 Hull, in June, 1873. Several 



species, new to the local fauna, 

 have also been taken (which have 

 been noticed in the monthly reports 

 in the Naturalist). Excursions were 

 made during the summer to several 

 well-known collecting grounds, and 

 many specimens taken. The fol- 

 lowing gentlemen were elected 

 ofiicers for the ensuing year : — 

 president — E. Birchall, F.L.S. ; 

 vice-presidents — H. R. Moiser, 

 F.G.S., and T. S. Wesley, M.B. .; 

 treasurer — Wilham Simmons ; hon. 

 secretary — Mr. Brest ; and five 

 members of the committee. Mr. 

 Helstrip exhibited the little owl, 

 with the young and eggs ; also eggs 

 of the little egret. Mr. Dennis, 

 bred specimens of Eupithcecia alhi- 

 punctata and Phigalia Pilosaria ; 

 Mr. Robinson, Nyssia hispidaria, 

 bred from larva taken at Cawood, 

 and Notodonta trepida ; Mr. Sim- 

 mons, iron ore from Ireland and 

 Sweden, and a large specimen of 

 rock crystal ; the secretary, speci- 

 mens of Helix virgata, from Sher- 

 burn ; Mr. Wolstenholme, a fine 

 specimen of the glossy ibis {Ibis 

 falcinellus), and read a very inter- 

 esting description of this curious 

 bird. 



[We have little doubt the specimen 

 of Eupithcecia extensaria alluded 

 to above was accidentally im- 

 ported, probably as a pupa. — 

 Eds. Nat.] 



Erratum. — March No,, p. 125, 

 1. 12 — 11 from bottom: for " ruhi- 

 ginosa," read "fuliginosa''; and, 

 1. 3 from bottom, for Ziliaria " 

 read " Tiliaria.'" 



