The Rainfall in September. — Huddersfield.— During September my 

 gauge registered 4 "73 inches in 25 days, making the total fall for the nine 

 months 23*14 inches. The average is thus again made up, 22 '98 inches, 

 being the mean of 1866-75. The average rainfall of September is 3"48 

 inches, and the number of rainy days 17. The heaviest fall (0*70 in.) 

 occurred on the 8th. The wind has been more than usually variable 

 throughout the month. — J. W. Robson. 



Dalton, 2nd October. 



The Rainfall in September. — Wakefield. — Rain fell on 24 days, the 

 collective quantity amounting to 3*13 inches. The greatest daily fall 

 occurred on the 30th, to the depth of 0*62 inches. There has been a 

 marked decrease in temperature in this month, and north-westerly winds 

 have been most prevalent. — Fredk. Hill. 



Wakefield, IMh October. 



The Nesting Season around Halifax. — Though cold inclement 

 weather in the early spring caused many of the migratory birds to reach 

 our valleys at later dates than usual, nevertheless, when they did arrive 

 many species proved more numerous than in past summers. Alluding 

 first to those birds which resort to the high moorlands in preference to 

 the more sheltered dales, the dunlin has during the summer been abun- 

 dant on Wadsworth and Midgley moors. The golden plover (one of our 

 rarer birds), the common snipe, ring ouzel, and mountain linnet, have, 

 as usual, nested on the moors, the two latter kinds being numerous. The 

 wheatear, our first herald of spring, is annually on the increase. Night- 

 jars have appeared more abundant than in former summers. Of those 

 kinds which generally repair to the valleys in the spring time for incuba- 

 tion, mention may be made of the following : — Rays' wagtail, chifichaff", 

 garden and grasshopper warblers, black-headed bunting, redpole, ring 

 dove, stock dove, landrail, moor hen, common sandpiper, water-ouzel, 

 and kingfisher. All these, together with many other migratory and 

 indigenous varieties, have bred in this part of Yorkshire during the 

 present year. — G. S. Rawson, Thorpe, Halifax. 



Cuckoo's Egg. — In the beginning of last July, as I was taking a walk 

 on a heathy waste near this village, my attention was attracted towards 

 a skylark which I saw hovering a few feet above the ground, and then 

 drop suddenly down. As I felt confident by its movements that there 

 was either a nest or fledged young, I went to the place, and found it 

 had a nest (containing four eggs) l^uilt in a tuft of bent grass ; but, to my 

 surprise, I found that one of the eggs difiered from the rest in being inferior 

 in size, a little more broadly ovate, and the ground colour of a reddish 

 grey, — characters which convinced me that it was the egg of a cuckoo, 

 I never before found its egg in the nest of any bird with the exception 

 of the titlark and the whinchat. I once found two in the nest of a 



