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Occurrence of the Night Heron in 

 Cheshire.— A. few days ago, a very fine spe- 

 cimen of tlienight lieron Nijcticorax ardeola, 

 measuring twenty inches, with, plumes 

 seven inches long, was shot by a person 

 named Smith, near the Mersey, at Gatley, 

 Chesiiire. — Sporting News. 



A Large Brood of Partrid.gcs. — In the 

 third week of last month Mr. Samuel 

 Cock, of Little TrewoUock, St Wenn, 

 walking out in a meadow adjoining his 

 house, found a partridge on her nest. 

 Watching almost dailv for the ahsence of 

 the bird, he had the opportunity of count- 

 ing the unusual n amber of nineteen eggs, 

 a hen, or barn-door fowl having deposited 

 one of hers to make the twentieth. The 

 old bird completed her term of incubation 

 on Wednesday in last week, going off with 

 her entire brood of nineteen, leaving the 

 hen's egg unhatched. — Western Daily 

 News. 



Richmond and North Riding Naturalists'' 

 Field Club. — Monthly meeting, Tuesday, 

 July 11th. Mr. Jas. Ward, F.B.S., in the 

 chair. 



The chairman exhibited a quantity of 

 plants which he had collected during a tour 

 in Switzerland in May and June last, 

 amongst which were the following : — 



Ranunculus alpestris,Aconitum Napcllus, 

 Dryas octopctala, Hellehorus foitidus, Che- 

 nopodium olidum, Chenopoclium polysper- 

 mum, C.murale, C. hyh^idurtx, Mercurialis 

 anntca, Hieracium amplexicaule, Senicio 

 paludosus, Gcntiana. acaidis, and G. verna, 

 Hypochoeris maculata^ Bilene nutans, and 



S. Otites, S. acaulis, Dianthus Caryophyllus, 

 Arenaria ciliata, Cera^stium latifolium, 

 Asperida Cynanchica, Staphylea pinnata, 

 Phyteuma spicata, and P. orbicular e, Pyrola 

 secunda, Bupleurum falcatum, Caucalis 

 daucoides, Isatis tinctoria, Thlaspi per folia- 

 turn, Draba aizoides, Alyssum calycinum, 

 Echium violaxeum, Saxifraga oppositifolia, 

 Veronica saxatilis, Calamintha acinos, 

 Bartsia alpina, Salvia pratensis, Leonurus 

 Cardiaca, Ajitga Chamo'pitys, Pinguicula. 

 alpina, Herniaria glabra, Medicago sativa, 

 M. falcata, and M. minima, Onobrychis 

 saliva, Sedum glaucum, and >S'. sexangulare, 

 Rumex pulcher, Arctostaphylos alpina, and 

 A. Uva-ursi, Potentilla argentca, Rosa 

 alpina, Cotoneaster vulgaris, Euphorbia 

 Esula, and E. Cyparissias, Polygonatum 

 verticillatum, P. mtiUiflora, Epipactis 

 palustris, Epipactis rubra, and E. grandi- 

 flora, Cypripedium Calceolus, Herminium 

 Monm^chis, Corallorhiza innata, Brachy- 

 p)odium, pinnatum, Bromus erectus, Erio- 

 phorum alpiiium, Luzula Borreri, Typha 

 minor, together with many exotic medicinal 

 plants, also a quantity of British medicinal 

 plants in a fresh state. 



The Secretary (Mr. J. Aspdin) exhibited 

 a nest of the Hooded Crow Corvus comix, 

 which had been taken by Mr. Savage on 

 the Hornby estate ; it contained four eggs, 

 but the female having been trapped the 

 male revenged himself by breaking them. 

 Mr. Aspdin remarked that this was the 

 fii'st instance he had known of iis breeding 

 in the neighbourhood. He also exhibited 

 a damaged specimen of the Death's Head 

 Moth Acherontia Atropos, taken in a bee- 

 hive at Richmond, on the 14th of June ; 

 this he considered very early for the appear- 

 ance of this moth. Mr. W. Hanxwell 

 exhibited some specimens of coal from a 

 vein at tlie Round Howe, near Richmond. 

 The meeting then adjourned to the second 

 Tuesday in August. — J. Aspdin, Sec. 



