Short Notes and Queries. 12S 



ainfall iox Mnnmxvt. 





Height 



of 

 gauge 

 above 



sea 

 level. 



Rain- 

 tail. 



"NTn 

 IN O . 



of 



Total Fall 

 TO Date. 



heaviest 



Amount 

 of 



llCdV lt?oU 



Fall. 





Days 



1878. 



1877, 



Fall. 



HUDDERSFIELD (Dalton) ... 



(J. W. Robson) 



Ft. 



350 



In. 



3 '09 



19 



3-09 



*3-26 



30 



0 69 



"Wakefield ... (F, Hill) 



120 



2-34 



16 



2-34 



1-80 



3 



0-64 



Leeds ... (H. Crowther) ... 



183 



2-50 



18 



2-50 





3 



0-53 



Halifax... (F. G. S. Rawson) 



360 



5-40 



24 



5-40 









Beadfoed... (J. A. Douglas, 

 [F.M.S. 





3-54 



20 



3-54 



4-65 



22 



0-75 



Baensley ... (T. Lister) ... 



350 



2-20 



19 



2-20 



3-82 



3 



0-32 



Ingbiechwoeth (do.) 



853 



3-54 



20 



3-54 



5-62 



21 



0-86 



"Wentwoeth Castle (do.)... 



600 



2-48 



19 



2-48 



4-72 



21 



0-51 



GooLB ... (H. F. Parsons) ... 



25 



1-04 



15 



1-04 



2-10 



3 



0-25 



/ * This is the average to date for 12 years, 1866-77. 



Elodea canadensis. — Will Dr. Lees, or any other explanator of distribu- 

 tion tell the readers of the Naturalist how Elodea canadensis spreads into 

 ponds, &c. , far removed from any canal or river on which boats are found 1 

 I have noticed it in ponds at a good elevation. One instance of its occur- 

 rence a good distance from an easy source of contamination is between 

 Mean wood and Adel, a place familiar to Dr. Lees. — W. West, Bradford, 

 Feb. 7th, 1878. 



Stonechat. — I was surprised to read a note in the current Naturalist 

 by Mr. Varley, stating that the stonechat does not breed in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Halifax, Huddersfield, or Saddle worth — that is to say, on 

 the Pennine moors. Mr. Rawson, in his "Birds of Halifax," says 

 explicitly that it does breed in his neighbourhood. Mr. Talbot says that 

 it breeds in the Wakefield district, stating where he has found its nest. 

 Mr. Roebuck gives Adel Moor as a nesting-place in the Leeds district ; 

 and Mr. Lister enters it as a spring visitor to the Barnsley district. Mr. 

 Miall gives it as a bird frequenting the barren lands about Bradford. I 

 have seen it occasionally here in spring, and Mr. Varley himself declares 

 that he observed it on Rombalds Moor in the breeding season on two 

 occasions last year. Bearing in mind this testimony, and considering the 

 nature of the bird, I should think it a singular feature in the ornithology 

 of Britain if it does not breed annually, though perhaps not abundantly, 

 all along the western moors — a region far more in consonance with the 

 habits of the bird than some of the places above adduced. I should like 

 to have the opinions of others on the subject. In the meantime Mr. 

 Varley may be justly invited to give us a little more information in 



