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hedge accentor, redbreast, stonechat, greater tit, blue tit, pied wagtail, 

 meadow pipit, skylark, bunting, blackheaded bunting, yellow bunting, 

 chaffinch, tree sparrow, house sparrow, greenfinch, linnet, starling, rook, 

 jackdaw, wren, ring dove, stock dove, partridge, golden plover, peewit, 

 heron, redshank, common snipe, moor hen, wild ducks (plentiful on the 

 warpings and the pits, but not near enough to then distinguish the species 

 satisfactorily), common tern, blackheaded gull, kittiwake, lesser black- 

 headed gull, herring gull. Summer migrants : whinchat, wheatear, 

 sedge warbler, reed warbler, willow warbler, Ray's wagtail, swallow, 

 martin, sand martin, swift. Mammalia, &c. : water vole, common rat, 

 weasel, mole, hare, rabbit. Reptilia : the adder or viper.— Mr. James 

 Spencer, chairman of the Geological Section, and Dr. Parsons, reported : 

 the strata of the neighbourhood were, 1 warp, 2 peat, 3 sand, 4 laminated 

 clay, 5 gravel, 6 (probably) boulder clay, 7 new red sandstone (Keuper 

 and Bunter). Only the four upper are exposed near Goole, but the gravel 

 may be seen at Thorne and Hensall. The peat extends over an area much 

 larger than the moorlands, and varies from Gin. to 20ft. in thickness, and 

 at its base are the remains of an ancient forest. The laminated clay and 

 gravel were no doubt the debris of the boulder clay. The nature of the 

 stones in the gravel showed that it had been carried hither from the west, 

 not from the north, of Yorkshire. — Mr. Nelson, president of the Concho- 

 logical Section, reported that the takes during the day had been but 

 moderate, — 17 species and 3 varieties of recent and several fossil moUusks. 

 Those deserving special mention were Limnsea stagnalis, var. f ragilis, of 

 which one specimen was taken on the moor by Mr. S. D. Bairstow, and a 

 single specimen of Helix arbustorum, var. alpestris, from the warp lands 

 near Goole. — Mr. Wm. Brest, of York, president of the Entomological 

 Section, reported a good day, many very good species having been taken— 

 one, if not two, new to Yorkshire."^ Crambus Warringtonellus had been 

 taken quite commonly, and he knew of no capture of that species in York- 

 shire before ; it is also doubtful whether Carsia imbutata has occurred in 

 Yorkshire before or not. The following is a list of species taken during 

 the day : — Chortobius Davus, larva of Bombyx rubi, Saturnia Carpini, 

 Hadena pisi. Anarta myrtilli, Bombyx callunae and potatoria, Hyria 

 auroraria, Acidalia aversata (a very fine variety), Eupithecia minutata 

 and nanata, Carsia imbutata, Stenopteryx hybridalis, Crambus "Warring- 

 tonellus, margaritellus, and pascuellus, Phycis carbonariella, Tortrix 

 heperana and viburnana, Grapholitha nigromaculana, Eupoecilia augus- 

 tana, and many very common species. — Coleoptera (part being taken 

 in June) :— There seems to be on the whole a marked distinction between 

 those gathered on the warp land and those from the moor land ; from 

 the former are Haliplus affinis, Phsedon vetulse, Coccinella septem- 

 punctata, and Phyllobius argentatus ; from the latter, Gastrophysa 



* We believe both 0. Warringtonellus and 0. imbutata are quite new to the 



County. — Uds. Nat. 



