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regarded as a common and generally distributed species 1 At least if it is 

 common with us I can explain my anomalous position only on the 

 supposition that I "cannot see 'em for looking at 'em." — E. P, P. 

 BuTTERPiELD^ Wilsdeu, September 14th, 1878. 



Stonechat. — Since my note in April on the stonechat, I have searched 

 both likely and unlikely places for this bird, especially on Dalton Bank, 

 where the one was shot on the 5th of April last, but 1 have not had the 

 pleasure of seeing one. I also spent the first week in May with my 

 friends at Hebden Bridge, and was not successful there ; and my friend 

 Mr, Sam Gibson, a good ornithologist, has only one record of it occurring 

 there. It is a bird that frequents fiat and low-lying land. I have always 

 found it on the seacoast both west and east, and also in north and south 

 Wales, and plentiful at Sherwood Forest. — Jambs Vakley, Almondbury 

 Bank, Huddersfield, Sept. 5th, 



Teen. — On August 24th I went out of the house at 11 p m., and heard 

 the well-known cries of some terns : they continued to fiy round for more 

 than an hour, keeping up a constant cry. I went out again early the 

 following morning to see if they had settled on any of the dams, in order 

 that I might determine the species. — James Vaeley, Almondbury Bank, 

 Huddersfield, Sept. 5th. 



The Hawfinch breeding near Leeds. — I have to record the dis- 

 covery last spring, between Coble Hall and Roundhay, of the hawfinch's 

 nest. Jt was placed high up in a holly tree, and was such as to remind 

 one of the ring-dove's flat platform of a nest, consisting of a foundation 

 of small sticks and twigs, lined with roots, hay, &c. It contained five 

 eggs, which were easily identified as those of the hawfinch {Coccothraustes 

 vulgaris). This summer a hawfinch was caught in a garden near Newlay ; 

 it was a fine female, and was easily taken by a boy, having gorged itself 

 with berries to such an extent as to prevent its escape. Another speci- 

 men was shot last December, near Otley. — Walter Rainb, 5, Leeds 

 Terrace, North Street, Leeds, Sept. 17th. 



Nonagria Hellmanni at Monk's Wood. — Two moths sent to me for 

 identification by Mr. Harold Hebblethwaite, of Bradford, are this species. 

 He took them in August last, at Monk's Wood, in Huntingdonshire, 

 which is a new locality for this local insect, — Geo. T. Porritt. 



Unio margaritifer at Whitby. — On September 9th I took in the river 

 Esk, near Whitby, Unio margaritifer, L., and the variety sinuata, Lam. 

 — H, Crowther, The Museum, Leeds. 



Correction (Page 8). — An unfortunate clerical error crept into our 

 review of " West Yorkshire," which should have been corrected in our 

 last issue. The scale of the maps should have been quoted as " four 

 miles to the inch," instead of " four inches to the mile." — Mr. Lees also 



