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who is taking up the Ichneumonidee, would also be glad to receire 

 ■specimens of that group. 



I hope that the impetus given by Mr. Mosley's paper may result 

 in the enlistment of recruits not only to this, but also to other of the 

 neglected orders. 



9, Sunny Bank, Leeds, 



March 16th, 1878. 



Ivahtfall for IpHrclr. 





Height 

 of 



above 



sea 

 level. 



Rain- 

 fall. 



No. 



01 



Total Fall 

 TO Date. 



Date of 

 heaviest 



Amount 

 of 



heaviest 

 Fall. 





Days 



1878. 



1877. 



Fall. 



HUDDESSFIELD (Dalton) ... 



(J. W. Robson) 



Ft. 



350 



In. 



1-56 



13 



5-64 



* 8-28 



1 



0-66 



Wakefield ... (F. Hill) 



120 



0-74 



10 



3-95 





1 



0-19 



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



183 



0-52 



9 



4-82 





1 



0-21 



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



360 



3-13 



13 



10-53 



17-23 







Bradfoed... (J. A. Douglas, 

 [F.M.S. 



415 



070 



11 



6-49 



9-63 



1 



0- 33 



Barnsley ... (T. Lister) ... 



350 



0-58 



9 



3-86 



8-96 



1 



0 19 



Ingbirchworth (do.) 



853 



1-92 



15 



6-97 



11-90 



1 



0-89 



Wentworth Castle (do.)... 



600 



0-62 



8 



4-41 



10-08 



27 



0-22 



GOOLB ... (H. F, Parsons) ... 



25 



0-75 



9 



2-68 



6-12 



9 



0-21 



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



Chaffinch (Variety). — I have on several occasions had the pleasure 

 of seeing, in a garden near my house, an almost albino variety of this 

 bird. Its whole plumage is very light, the crown of its head, nape, rump, 

 and almost all the tail feathers perfectly white. I think this finch is not 

 often subject to variation, as this is the only specimen that has come 

 directly under my notice. — G. Parkin, Brampton, Cumberland, March 

 21st. 



Variety of Chaffinch. — I called to see Mr. Talbot, of Wakefield, 

 early in March, and he showed me a beautiful variety of a male chaffinch 

 which I think worth recording. The breast and belly were of the normal 

 colour, intermixed with about 40 per cent, of white feathers ; the head 

 and neck nearly all white ; the back and wing feathers white, with 

 ]3atches of the normal colour, and here and there a shade of the most 



