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notices of birds were brought before the meeting, snipes, magpies, jays, 

 and kingfishers being reported. Our resident birds have never been 

 noticed to sing so much as in the present autumn and winter. They 

 ceased a while in moulting, but many — as the skylark, thrush, and wren 

 — ^burst out again in melody, and our gardens near the town are enlivened 

 up to the present date by the thrush, robin, and other songsters. On the 

 20th December the president saw in Walton Park large numbers of 

 bernicle, brent, and Canada geese, wigeon, scaup, and wild ducks ; they 

 are wonderfully tame, being protected as in Waterton's home, and come 

 to feed on the island in front of the hall. Mr. Hailstone wrote on the 

 12th that three wild swans flew northward, and 500 wild ducks, widgeons, 

 and dun divers, were on the lake. — Thos. Lister. 



Bradford Naturalists' Society. — Meeting Jan. 8th. — Entomological, 

 ornithological, and geological specimens were exhibited. Mr. Firth 

 reported having heard the thrush in full song on Jan. 5th. Mr. Carter 

 then read a list of the lepidoptera collected round about Bradford from 

 the beginning of 1875 to the end of 1877, in which he enumerated 190 

 species, giving the localities and dates ; amongst them were the 

 following : — Golias Edusa, Vanessa polychloros, V. cardui, Sphinx convol- 

 vuli, Nudaria mundana, Chelonia plantaginis, Arctia fuliginosa, Pericalia 

 syringaria, Geometra papilionaria (thirty specimens of this were taken in 

 1877), Scodionia helgiaria, Abraxas ulmata, Larentia coesiata, L. olivataf 

 Emmelesia ajffinitata, Eupithecia pidchellata, Melanthia ruhiginata, Mela- 

 nippe galiata, Coremia propugnata, Acronycta menyanthidis, Axylia 

 putris, Caradrina alsines, Agrotis valligera, A. porphyrea, Triphoena 

 Jimhria, Noctua C-nigrum, Hadena glauca, Plusia V-aiireum, and Stilbia 

 unomala. The members have recorded 457 plants for the district round 

 the town, representing 245 genera and 68 orders, excluding mosses, scale 

 mosses, fungi, and lichens. The following are some of the rarer plants : 

 JRanunculus Jtuitans, B. Lenormandi, Stellaria nemorum (plentiful in 

 several localities), Geranium phceum, G. pyrenaicum, Acer campestre, TJlex 

 Gallii, Trifolium procumbens, Primus Padus, Sanguisorba officinalis, Rosa 

 mollisima, Epilobium tetragonum, Fcenicidum vulgare, Myo-rhis odorata, 

 Centaurea Calcitrapa, Senecio SaracenicuSy Lactuca muralis, Campanula 

 latifoUa, Vaccinium Vitis-idoea, Lathrcea squamaria, Orobanche majorj 

 Trientalis europoea, Carpinus betulus, Salix pentandra, Potamogeton densus, 

 Sagittaria sagittifolia, Elodea canadensis (everywhere), Carex laevigata, 

 and Alopecurus agrestis. — Wm. West, Sec. 



Clayton- West Naturalists' Society. — Annual meeting and tea, 12th 

 January, Dr. Duncan in the chair. — The annual report and treasurer's 

 balance-sheet were read and passed, and the ofiicers and committee for 

 the ensuing year elected. The members present were highly gratified 

 with the improved position of the Society, and expressed their satisfaction 

 with the report, which showed an increase of members during the year, 

 as well as a considerable cash balance in hand. The Society also 



