THE NATUBALIBT. 



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April 13tli 



Saw Tree Pipit, Yellow Wag- 



tail and Swallow. 



... 16tli 



Saw Eedstart. 



... 18tli 



Heard Garden Warbler. 



... 23rd 



Heard Whitethroat. 



25tli 



Heard Cuckoo. 



... 29th 



Saw Whinchat. 



May 2iid 



Heard Sedgewarbler andCorn- 





crake, and saw a pair oi 





Grey Wagtails. 



... 15th 



Heard Wood Warbler, and got 





eggs of LesserWhitethroat. 



... 18th 



Flycatcher arrived. 



Martins arrived last and have not been 

 numerous. I passed a breeding place on 

 the 30th of April but none had come. — 

 Geo. Eobeets, Lofthouse. 



Variety of the Chaffinch. — On the 29th 

 September a curious variety of this species, 

 Fringilla coelebs, was killed out of a flock, 

 on the estate belonging to J. Lomax, Esq., 

 of Clayton Hall, by his gamekeeper, and is 

 now in the possession of Mr. Thomas Jones 

 of Church. The top of the head is a lead 

 colour speckled with white and with a 

 pinkish hue round the eyes ; the back is a 

 yellowish green ; wings, lead colour ; wing 

 coverts barred with white and lead colour. 

 The first and second tail feathers are white 

 the rest with the tail coverts lead colour. 

 The breast is of a^pinkish hue, bill pink, 

 the legs of a glossy brown. It was a male 

 bird. — Sidney Smith, Church near Ac- 

 crington. 



Capture of Acherontia atropos and Deile- 

 phila lineata. — About a fortnight ago, I 

 had a very fine specimen of Acherontia 

 atropos brought to me, which on the 

 Sunday previous had entered a house 

 sometime during the evening. It was 

 captured by a young man, who, not 

 caring about Entomology, drove the in- 

 truder out of his house. The day following 

 it entered the next cottage, and another 

 youth, probably having more regard for the 

 beautiful in nature, secured the prize, and 

 after keeping it a few days handed it over 



into my keeping. Another remarkable 

 specimen now in my possession is Deile- 

 phila lineata. It was found in the larva 

 stage feeding on Galium Molugo, by a 

 little boy. I obtained it from him in the 

 chrysalis form on the 4th of September ; it 

 emerged on the 27th a beautiful and fully 

 developed imago. It measures in expanse 

 of the wings three inches and an eighth. — 

 Samuel Gibson, Hebden Bridge, York- 

 shire. 



Guscuta trifoliiin Perthshire. — I have to 

 record the occurrence of, I believe, a new 

 plant to the Scottish Flora. This is 

 Guscuta trifolii, Bab., which I have found 

 rather abundantly in a clover field in the 

 neighbourhood of Perth. Prof. Babington 

 thinks (I quite agree with him) that it 

 cannot however be considered a native of 

 Perthshire, having probably been intro- 

 duced with the clover seed. He considers 

 this to be its usual origin in England also. 

 I shall be happy to send a Scottish speci- 

 men to any botanist, on the receipt of a 

 stamped addressed envelope. I have lately 

 found near Dunkeld, Thera juniperata, 

 (imagines andpupa3)and T. coniferata^i^axYo) 

 This is a new station for these local insects. 

 — F. Buchanan White, M.D., Perth, 

 Oct. 9th, 1865. 



A few plants gathered, or dbsermd in 

 Graven, in May ; — 



Clematis vitalha. Stream side, near the 

 New Inn, Clapham. 



Trollius europcEus, Malham. 



Meconopsis camhrica. Chapel -le-Dale. 



CheiranthuM Cheiri. Castleberg, Settle. 



Viola lutea. Gordale and other places. 

 Many plants have the upper petals pur- 

 ple, or tipped with purple. 



Arenaria verna. On the borders of the 

 Kingsdale beck. 



Geranium sylvaticum. Malham. 



G. lucidum. Malham. 



Prunus Padus. Malham and other places, 



Geum Hvale. Malham, Clapham, and 

 other places. This plant is not inappro- 



